8 Kahu Road
4 council reports since October 2015, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Kahu Road, 6 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting, 39V Kahu Road (170m)
- Riccarton Grounds (223m)
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
- Riccarton Bush, 42 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 302 m to the edge
- Clarence Reserve, 466 m to the edge
- Mandeville Reserve, 487 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Riccarton Service Centre, 421 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Riccarton Bush - Christchurch Farmers' Market, 187 m away · Markets
- Straven Medical, 190 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Joyful Restaurant, 214 m away · Restaurants
- Anselm House, 221 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, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 98 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 125 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 188 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Apr 2025
Street Cleaning, 2 Dec 2024 This double sump seems to be fully blocked. Please send sump cleaning truck to enable upstream flows through the sumps.
- Roading/Streets, 20 Feb 2016
2 pot holes outside 6 and 8 Kahu Road
Roading/Streets, 11 Oct 2015
Cover plate missing.
Elsewhere on Kahu Road
- 2 Kahu Road, 6 reports
- 5 Kahu Road, 4 reports
- 9 Kahu Road, 3 reports
- 9A Kahu Road, 2 reports
- 7 Kahu Road, 1 report
- 4 Kahu Road, 1 report
- 3 Kahu Road, 1 report
- 16 Kahu Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Kahu Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Kahu 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
4 council reports on record since October 2015, most often roading/streets (2), street cleaning (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Kahu Road.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting, Riccarton Grounds.
Riccarton Bush, 42 m to its edge, 12 ha.

