# Parks, Avonhead, 8042, Canterbury

Christchurch · filed 5 May 2017 · report 254123
https://www.chch.live/report/254123

> I visited the Avonhead Cemetery on the anniversary of my mother's birthday yesterday 4 May. I visit her grave on a regular basis. I am frankly appalled at the neglected state of the Avonhead Cemetery - in particular the area surrounding the Memorial to those who lost their lives in the Christchurch Earthquake. The grass around the graves reassembles an overgrown paddock. One could makes excuses about the inclement weather & the surge in grass growth but this is not the first incident of neglect in this particular area of the Cemetery I have witnessed over the two & a half years I have been a visitor. It is important to note due to the significant rainfall in recent weeks a number of the graves have slumped & thus making it a hazard for the unsuspecting visitor to their loved ones graves as the sinking of the graves CANNOT be seen by the overgrown grass. Overseas I have seen cemeteries tendered over with much pride - in fact you would hardly recognise them as cemeteries but more akin to well maintained gardens & parks. The grass & garden area surrounding our Avonhead earthquake memorial is a disgrace!

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Grave Maintenance (Park), 6 m away · resolved 20 Oct 2020, took 13 months
- Graves Top Up, 8 m away · open, filed 1 Oct 2019
- Grave Maintenance (Park), 8 m away · resolved 8 Oct 2019, took 6 months
- Grave Maintenance (Park), 9 m away · resolved 2 Jul 2019, took 4 days
- Grave Maintenance (Park), 10 m away · resolved 5 Jun 2019, took 4 days
- Grass (Park), 10 m away · resolved 12 Nov 2018, took 5 weeks
- Grave Maintenance (Park), 11 m away · resolved 22 Jul 2020, took 45 hours
- Grass (Park), 11 m away · resolved 8 Oct 2019, took 13 months
MyCouncilTicket is a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/parks-maintenance
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/avonhead/avonhead
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/avonhead
The attached photograph: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/00254123/0
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.508755349292045&lon=172.54784475978119

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=254123