Roading/Streets
Reported Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 1:37 pm, 197 Cavendish Road, Casebrook, Christchurch 8051, New Zealand.
The reporter’s words
Urgent Health and Safety Concern. From Senior Constable Matthew Reeves, Neighbourhood policing team. Good afternoon, I watched an elderly gentleman in his mobility scooter try to return to the retirement village on Cavandish Road. There is no footpath connecting the footpath outside the retirement home to the paths on either side or along Styx Mill Road. It was raining and he rode onto the grass. The mobility scooter then tipped over tipping him into a ditch and landing on top of him with his head held in the water starting to gather at the bottom. He was unable to move. If I had not seen it happening he could have died. I believe there must be a by law or something that tells developers they must put a footpath outside their developments. This urgently needs to change to state that they must, within reason connect it to existing footpaths. With the increasing rise of retirement villages and an ageing population it is essential that the external connections of these homes and villages facilitate safe mobility for the elderly and mobility impaired. I have also seen multiple other cases of elderly people walking along the busy Cavandish road because of the 50 metre gap that the developer has left between footpaths. This is a fatality waiting to happen. The same is occurring along Styx mill Road. Kind Regards Matthew Reeves
The filing
- Filed
- Wednesday, 25 May 2022 at 1:37 pm
- Report number
- #2,377,839
- Filed under
- roads
- Coordinates
- the pin on the map →
The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Footpath23 m away · resolved 28 Sept 2022, took 4 months · probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Water Leak16 m away · resolved 23 Dec 2024, took 3 days
- Water Leak16 m away · resolved 24 Sept 2024, took 48 hours
- Pressure & Vacuum Waste Water18 m away · resolved 30 Sept 2024, took 24 hours
- Road Layout24 m away · resolved 7 Oct 2021, took 13 days
- Flooding (Road)33 m away · resolved 30 Jun 2020, took 19 hours
- Wandering dog34 m away · resolved 25 Sept 2020, took 15 hours
- Litter42 m away · resolved 11 Sept 2023, took 20 hours
MyCouncilTicket is the council’s own work-order stream, a different door from the public report above, and the same job can stand in both. The whole ticket roll →
Where this sits
The address197 Cavendish Roadthe only report the feed has filed at this address, the address’s whole recordThe streetCavendish Roadthe street’s record, every report on itThe suburbCasebrookthe suburb, in depthThe problemRoading/Streetsevery filing of its kind on the city’s booksThe date25 Maythis date in the archive, across the yearsThe year2022the year’s shelf and ledgerThe mapOn the mapthe pin, among its neighboursBeforeWhat stood herewhat the archive knows of this ground
The feed listed this report when a sweep caught it 6 Sept 2026, it has not been listed since. The record here does not move.