53 Straven Road
10 council reports since February 2018, 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 (122m)
- Christchurch Boys' High School Main Building and Setting, 39 Kahu Road (190m)
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, 115 m to the edge
- Riccarton Bush, 171 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Daresbury Park, 431 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Mona Vale, 490 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, 219 m away · B&Bs
- Riccarton Bush - Christchurch Farmers' Market, 287 m away · Markets
- Christchurch Farmers' Market, 304 m away · Marketplace
- No. 10 Bed & Breakfast, 318 m away · B&Bs
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, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 22 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 164 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
Roads - General, 25 Oct 2025 Gutter sump cover not removed post resealing works.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Feb 2025 Graffiti on ccc box
Graffiti somewhere else, 13 Dec 2024
Graffiti, 2 Mar 2024
Graffiti, 29 Feb 2024 Traffic light control box.
- Hazard, vehicle, 7 Jul 2023
- Street Light Outage, 2 May 2023
Roading/Streets, 25 Nov 2019
parking over part of driveway
Graffiti, 27 Mar 2019
Roading/Streets, 19 Feb 2018
Is this person parked illegally in terms of our driveway? Patients are finding it hard to turn in, esp if coming down Straven towards Riccar
Elsewhere on Straven Road
- 43 Straven Road, 26 reports
- 5 Straven Road, 25 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
- 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
10 council reports on record since February 2018, most often graffiti (3), roading/streets (2), street light outage (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, 115 m to its edge.