45 Straven Road
5 council reports since December 2021, 3 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 (138m)
- Christchurch Boys' High School Main Building and Setting, 39 Kahu Road (209m)
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
- Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 123 m to the edge
- Riccarton Bush, 180 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Daresbury Park, 437 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Mona Vale, 476 m to the edge · Botanic · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Anselm House, 235 m away · B&Bs
- Riccarton Bush - Christchurch Farmers' Market, 298 m away · Markets
- No. 10 Bed & Breakfast, 302 m away · B&Bs
- Straven Medical, 307 m away · Doctors & clinics
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, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 33 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 158 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
- Roading/Streets, 3
- Water Leak, 1
- Pothole, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 22 Jul 2022 Another pothole, this one growing fast too. Chuck of surfacing loose on road, on dual crossing for major cycleway.
- Roading/Streets, 7 Jun 2022
The "no right turn" sign for the right turn into Matai (northbound Straven traffic) is out of alignment. It requires straightening up.
Water Leak, 29 Jan 2022 This leak is serious. It is visibly flowing. It has been like this for weeks. I cannot understand why it has not been fixed given there is h
- Roading/Streets, 18 Dec 2021
The sensor for bikes, and the pedestrian crossing button do not appear to be working.
Roading/Streets, 17 Dec 2021 Cycle priority crossing at the corner of Straven and Matai St West has had its timing changed and now the bikes have to wait for a minute or
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
- 23 Straven Road, 7 reports
- 17 Straven Road, 7 reports
- 6 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 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.
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
5 council reports on record since December 2021, most often roading/streets (3), water leak (1), pothole (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Straven Road.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting, Christchurch Boys' High School Main Building and Setting.
Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 123 m to its edge.


