8 Shand Crescent
9 council reports since September 2019, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Shand Crescent, 30 reports on file.
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
- Paeroa Reserve, you are in it · playground, 39 pieces
- Shand Crescent Reserve, 68 m to the edge
- Harrington Park, 123 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
- Riccarton Bush, 335 m to the edge · 12 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Magoo Auto, 170 m away · Car repair
- Naresh Dairy, 186 m away · Dairies & convenience
- You First Physio, 191 m away · Physio
- Doctors on Riccarton, 195 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Shand Cres, 149 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Riccarton Rd near Wainui St, 219 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 367 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 381 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 422 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Shand Reserve – John Shand, Arrived From Chester, England, 93 m away ·
SHAND RESERVE – John Shand, arrived from Chester, England on the Isabella Hercus in 1851 w
· 2003 - This Tree Was Planted by the Riccarton Wigram Community, 141 m away ·
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED BY THE RICCARTON WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD TO COMMEMORATE 100 YEARS OF
· 2003 - Presented to the Borough of Riccarton on the Occasion, 142 m away ·
PRESENTED TO THE BOROUGH OF RICCARTON ON THE OCCASION OF THE BOROUGH GOLDEN JUBILEE 1973 B
· 2003
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 9 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 21 Nov 2025 Material of terrace is subsiding. Paeroa reserve,next to foot bridge, east end of reserve.
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Jul 2025
Abandoned Vehicle, 2 Apr 2025 Petrol scooter d7arz. Reported stolen. Dumped in bushes in paeroa reserve, north side of river by footbridge behind 8 piko tce.
Park - General Request, 5 Jul 2024 dumped rubbish
Pothole, 18 Jan 2024 big pothole by the water
Overgrown Vegetation, 29 Dec 2023 Shrubs blocking footpath, next to footbridge in paeroa reserve
Parks, 4 Apr 2022 Shands Reserve Riccarton
Parks, 12 Dec 2019
excessive amounts of cabbage tree leaves
Parks, 2 Sept 2019
branches on park
Elsewhere on Shand Crescent
- 1 Shand Crescent, 30 reports
- 4 Shand Crescent, 12 reports
- 12 Shand Crescent, 11 reports
- 20 Shand Crescent, 9 reports
- 6 Shand Crescent, 8 reports
- 10 Shand Crescent, 4 reports
- 2R Shand Crescent, 3 reports
- 6A Shand Crescent, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Shand Crescent in 13 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.
Shand Crescent, 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
9 council reports on record since September 2019, most often parks (3), pothole (1), pavement - damaged (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Shand Crescent.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paeroa Reserve, the address is inside it.






