8A Rex Street
2 council reports since September 2020, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 8 Rex Street, 26 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
- Harrington Park, 439 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- St Pierres Sushi Blenheim Road, 126 m away · Fast food
- Wharenui Sports Centre, 136 m away · Sports centres
- Poolside Dairy, 143 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Divine, 150 m away · Bakeries
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, 130 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 490 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
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.
The remembered names nearby
- This Mural Was Created / by Dcypher in May 2016, 123 m away ·
This mural was created / by Dcypher in May 2016 / to mark the reopening of the / Wharenui
· 1899
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
- Road Signage, 1
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Litter, 25 Jun 2025 Flying nun. Rubbish constantly appears here.
Road Signage, 30 Sept 2020 Hi, let me try again. this pile of litter gas been here for months. I've reported it over a month ago. it's just crying wolf, wolf, wolf
Elsewhere on Rex Street
- 8 Rex Street, 26 reports
- 9A Rex Street, 14 reports
- 21 Rex Street, 14 reports
- 17 Rex Street, 14 reports
- 2 Rex Street, 13 reports
- 19 Rex Street, 13 reports
- 9 Rex Street, 12 reports
- 11A Rex Street, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rex Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Rex Street, 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
2 council reports on record since September 2020, most often road signage (1), litter (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Rex Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Harrington Park, 439 m to its edge, 1 ha.