23 Straven Road
7 council reports since April 2017, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 43 Straven Road, 26 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting, 39V Kahu Road (201m)
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
- Riccarton Bush, 123 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 273 m to the edge
- Mandeville Reserve, 415 m to the edge
- Clarence Reserve, 458 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Riccarton Service Centre, 422 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Straven Medical, 160 m away · Doctors & clinics
- No. 10 Bed & Breakfast, 192 m away · B&Bs
- Straven Road Veterinary Centre, 201 m away · Vets
- Fuji Buffet & Bar, 230 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 144 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 149 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 149 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
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
- Traffic Signals, 13 Apr 2026
Crossing signal is not making sound anymore during the day. However appears to make sound before 7am. Wondering if a mistake was made wit
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 9 May 2025 Blocked gutters are now causing bad surface flooding
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 31 Oct 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 27 Oct 2024 Signal box
Overgrown Vegetation, 6 Jan 2024 Overgrown plants forcing pedestrians into road to pass each other. Safety issue
Graffiti, 23 May 2022Roading/Streets, 4 Apr 2017
There's two patches required sometime. No rush, they have been waiting very many months. Thanks
Elsewhere on Straven Road
- 43 Straven Road, 26 reports
- 5 Straven Road, 25 reports
- 53 Straven Road, 10 reports
- 50 Straven Road, 8 reports
- 7A Straven Road, 7 reports
- 17 Straven Road, 7 reports
- 6 Straven Road, 6 reports
- 28 Straven Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Straven Road in 55 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Fendalton ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Straven 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
7 council reports on record since April 2017, most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2), traffic signals (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Straven Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting.
Riccarton Bush, 123 m to its edge, 12 ha.