48 Matai Street West
6 council reports since April 2021, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 35A Matai Street West, 13 reports on file.
On the register here
- Mona Vale Lodge and Setting, 40 Mona Vale Avenue (178m)
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Mona Vale, 63 Fendalton Road (236m)
- Dwellling and Setting, 20 Mona Vale Avenue (240m)
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
- Mona Vale, 30 m to the edge · Botanic · 5 ha
- Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 341 m to the edge
- Mandeville Reserve, 454 m to the edge
- Daresbury Park, 484 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Little Hagley Park, 486 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Britten Stables, 16 m away · B&Bs
- Ashleigh Court Motel, 132 m away · Motels
- Mona Vale Homestead, 180 m away · Restaurants
- Greatstay Bed and Breakfast, 205 m away · B&Bs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Mona Vale Ave near Kilmarnock St, 209 m away · route 130
- Mona Vale Ave near Kilmarnock St, 213 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 7 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, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 58 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 168 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.
The remembered names nearby
- To the People of Canterbury / 'The Mighty Kauri', 122 m away ·
To the people of Canterbury / 'The mighty Kauri' / Donated by / Harry & Beth (illegible) /
· 2009 - Mona Vale Rose Garden - Opened 1994, 133 m away ·
Mona Vale Rose Garden - opened 1994 / Contributions for the purchase of roses in this gard
· 2009 - In Memory of / Sean J. Courtney & / Bernard T. Courtney, 148 m away ·
In Memory of / Sean J. Courtney & / Bernard T. Courtney / Mates enjoying the view
· 2009
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 4 Oct 2026 light pole beside railway line
- Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Aug 2026
plants blocking corner of bike lane. this is making it dangerous for bikes going in opposite directions to pass each other on the tight corn
Damaged Street Sign, 8 Feb 2025 I found your missing bus stop sign: it is next to the railway, by the bike path. (Not on the railway, thankfully.)
Graffiti, 29 Jan 2024 On fence and then repeated several times along bike path (on ground) to at least Glandovey Road
- Animal - Domestic, 23 Oct 2022
Roading/Streets, 14 Apr 2021 dangerous rocks beside cycle way. easy to run into, hard to see at night. will cause injury
Elsewhere on Matai Street West
- 35A Matai Street West, 13 reports
- 23 Matai Street West, 10 reports
- 70 Matai Street West, 7 reports
- 25A Matai Street West, 7 reports
- 92A Matai Street West, 5 reports
- 60 Matai Street West, 5 reports
- 86 Matai Street West, 4 reports
- 55 Matai Street West, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Matai Street West in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Matai Street West, 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
6 council reports on record since April 2021, most often roading/streets (1), overgrown vegetation (1), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Matai Street West.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Mona Vale Lodge and Setting, Former Dwelling and Setting, Mona Vale.
Mona Vale, 30 m to its edge, 5 ha.



