247 Grimseys Road
4 council reports since September 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 100 Grimseys Road, 92 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Alwyn Park, 120 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Vaughan Reserve, 254 m to the edge
- Murchison Park, 307 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 41 pieces
- Styx River Conservation Reserve, 368 m to the edge · 11 ha · playground, 31 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Redwood ran about $542 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
- Roads - General, 21 Jul 2026
Lowry Ave road is in bad shape particularly the part from the corner of Grimseys Rd to by the park. It needs resealing.
Pavement - General, 22 Mar 2026 left behind by the foot path contractors last week.
Flooding, 8 Sept 2025 Water leak from tobby on footpath
Water Leak, 8 Sept 2025 A water leak at cnr of Grimseys Rd and Lowry Ave on the foot path. Water is flowing down Lowry Ave.
Elsewhere on Grimseys Road
- 100 Grimseys Road, 92 reports
- 40 Grimseys Road, 45 reports
- 29 Grimseys Road, 44 reports
- 38 Grimseys Road, 23 reports
- 40A Grimseys Road, 18 reports
- 90 Grimseys Road, 15 reports
- 25 Grimseys Road, 13 reports
- 114 Grimseys Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Grimseys Road in 30 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Papanui ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Grimseys Road, the whole record → · Everything about Redwood → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
4 council reports on record since September 2025, most often water leak (1), roads - general (1), pavement - general (1).
Redwood, Christchurch, on Grimseys Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Alwyn Park, 120 m to its edge.


