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2 council reports since March 2022, 2 carrying a photograph.
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, 113 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Harrington Park, 153 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
- Shand Crescent Reserve, 218 m to the edge
- Riccarton Bush, 415 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
- Doctors on Riccarton, 261 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Magoo Auto, 269 m away · Car repair
- Harrington Park Dairy, 271 m away · Dairies & convenience
- You First Physio, 274 m away · Physio
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Shand Cres, 292 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Riccarton Rd near Wainui St, 304 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, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 430 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 485 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 498 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, 242 m away ·
SHAND RESERVE – John Shand, arrived from Chester, England on the Isabella Hercus in 1851 w
· 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish/Recycling, 14 May 2022
Roading/Streets, 9 Mar 2022 Lots of glass can’t see in photo
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.
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
2 council reports on record since March 2022, most often rubbish/recycling (1), roading/streets (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on A.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paeroa Reserve, 113 m to its edge.

