187 Riccarton Road
9 council reports since September 2015, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 35 Riccarton Road, 45 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
- Shand Crescent Reserve, 111 m to the edge
- Riccarton Bush, 137 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Paeroa Reserve, 150 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Harrington Park, 325 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- You First Physio, 19 m away · Physio
- Magoo Auto, 34 m away · Car repair
- Doctors on Riccarton, 47 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Naresh Dairy, 57 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Wainui St, 17 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Riccarton Rd near Shand Cres, 141 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 261 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 366 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 441 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 443 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- This Tree Was Planted by the Riccarton Wigram Community, 171 m away ·
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED BY THE RICCARTON WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD TO COMMEMORATE 100 YEARS OF
· 2003 - Presented to the Borough of Riccarton on the Occasion, 176 m away ·
PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF RICCARTON ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOROUGH GOLDEN JUBILEE 1973 B
· 2003 - Shand Reserve – John Shand, Arrived From Chester, England, 200 m away ·
SHAND RESERVE – John Shand, arrived from Chester, England on the Isabella Hercus in 1851 w
· 2003
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Riccarton ran about $544 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Oct 2026 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 18 Nov 2025 Graffiti on a light pole
Bus Shelter Issue, 28 Jan 2025 Real time display glass smashed
Vandalism - General, 24 Aug 2024 Bus stop timetable screen glass smashed in, looks deliberate. Could not get photos of the damage as I was on the bus and saw it. Don’t know
Vandalism - General, 22 Apr 2024 Bus stop glass smashed
- Graffiti, 3 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 7 Oct 2023
- Graffiti, 22 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 25 Sept 2015
Elsewhere on Riccarton Road
- 35 Riccarton Road, 45 reports
- 71 Riccarton Road, 43 reports
- 102 Riccarton Road, 36 reports
- 116 Riccarton Road, 33 reports
- 57 Riccarton Road, 32 reports
- 33 Riccarton Road, 32 reports
- 112 Riccarton Road, 30 reports
- 123 Riccarton Road, 27 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Riccarton Road in 275 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 44 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Riccarton Road, the whole record → · Everything about Riccarton → · 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
9 council reports on record since September 2015, most often graffiti (4), vandalism - general (2), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Riccarton Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Shand Crescent Reserve, 111 m to its edge.




