# Graffiti on a playground or in a park, Canterbury, Christchurch 8052, New Zealand

Christchurch · filed 6 May 2026 · report 8205552
https://www.chch.live/report/8205552

> Hi some boys are making a bike track behind the Elmwood croquet club which is going to damage grass and make mowing extremely difficult. Is it possible to put up a sign to deter them from doing this please?

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Tree (Park), 6 m away · resolved 12 May 2021, took 7 days
- Trees, 7 m away · resolved 19 May 2023, took 2 months
- Trees, 10 m away · resolved 12 May 2023, took 11 days
- Trees, 10 m away · resolved 12 Mar 2024, took 6 weeks
- Trees, 11 m away · resolved 13 Jun 2025, took 7 weeks
- Trees, 15 m away · resolved 11 Nov 2025, took 13 days
- Grass (Park), 16 m away · resolved 3 Oct 2018, took 46 hours
- Trees, 16 m away · resolved 26 Nov 2025, took 4 weeks
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/graffiti
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/merivale/canterbury
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/merivale
The attached photograph: https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/08205552/public/1_b5mdu2rjteli.jpg
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.51208499949339&lon=172.60950600019603

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=8205552