237 Blenheim Road
2 council reports since December 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 140 Blenheim Road, 26 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
- Middleton Park, 372 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
- Harrington Park, 448 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
- Curtain Studio, 17 m away · Curtain
- Carpet Court, 20 m away · Carpet
- Chemist Warehouse, 35 m away · Pharmacies
- Fitstop, 60 m away · Gyms & fitness
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, 24 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 214 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 457 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Light, 18 May 2025 Blenheim / wharenui orange light still not working (highlighted)
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 17 Dec 2024 Another box tagged
Elsewhere on Blenheim Road
- 140 Blenheim Road, 26 reports
- 145 Blenheim Road, 23 reports
- 138 Blenheim Road, 21 reports
- 150 Blenheim Road, 19 reports
- 182 Blenheim Road, 15 reports
- 158 Blenheim Road, 15 reports
- 75 Blenheim Road, 14 reports
- 142 Blenheim Road, 14 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Blenheim Road in 123 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 people killed, 21 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.
Blenheim 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
2 council reports on record since December 2024, most often graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet (1), damaged street light (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Blenheim Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Middleton Park, 372 m to its edge, 5 ha.

