50 Straven Road
8 council reports since July 2019, 8 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 (156m)
- Christchurch Boys' High School Main Building and Setting, 39 Kahu Road (217m)
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, 111 m to the edge
- Riccarton Bush, 202 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Daresbury Park, 421 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Mona Vale, 456 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, 252 m away · B&Bs
- No. 10 Bed & Breakfast, 305 m away · B&Bs
- Straven Medical, 319 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Riccarton Bush - Christchurch Farmers' Market, 319 m away · Markets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Kilmarnock St near Kahu Rd, 171 m away · route 130
- Kilmarnock St near Kahu Rd, 175 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 19 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 53 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 169 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 8 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 28 Apr 2026 Traffic light
Traffic Signals, 29 Oct 2025 Change to excessively long bicycle crossing wait time. Not sure why the traffic engineers think the increased wait time is required for cycl
Traffic Signals, 24 Oct 2025 Bike sensors don’t seem responsive after recent earthworks. Pressing the button shown the light goes off completely, and traffic doesn’t sto
Pavement - General, 20 Sept 2024 Diamonds not triggering bike traffic light
Water Leak, 3 Sept 2024 RC1 54 Straven rd LAC losing approx 1lpm Submitted by Detection Services
Pothole, 4 Dec 2023 Asphalt in this general area requires repair as surface breaks up
Rubbish/Recycling, 31 Aug 2019
abandoned fridge left on Matai St footpath - appeared approx 28 Aug. Not first time furniture has been deposited outside this address
Roading/Streets, 30 Jul 2019
crashed car obstructing cycle lane. has been there since yesterday.
Elsewhere on Straven Road
- 43 Straven Road, 26 reports
- 5 Straven Road, 25 reports
- 53 Straven Road, 10 reports
- 7A Straven Road, 7 reports
- 23 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
8 council reports on record since July 2019, most often traffic signals (2), water leak (1), rubbish/recycling (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, 111 m to its edge.