9A Rata Street
5 council reports since September 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 21 Rata Street, 9 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
- Riccarton Bush, 205 m to the edge · 12 ha
- Clarence Reserve, 287 m to the edge
- Picton Reserve, 403 m to the edge · playground, 14 pieces
- Mandeville Reserve, 426 m to the edge
- Avon River Esplanade Reserve, 479 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, 239 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Joyful Restaurant, 28 m away · Restaurants
- Wasabi 101, 44 m away · Fast food
- Kosco, 67 m away · Supermarkets
- F45 Training, 69 m away · Gyms & fitness
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Westfield Riccarton, 150 m away · route 3, route 5, route 80, route 86, route 100, route 120, route 130, route 140, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Kilmarnock St near Kahu Rd, 237 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 86 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 87 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 87 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 178 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Riccarton, 197 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, 21 Oct 2025 Abandoned sofas
Poles and Signage - General, 18 Jul 2025 Pole is spun around wrong way so arrows are pointing wrong direction. Needs to be spun around 180°
Poles and Signage - General, 15 Jan 2025 These poles have been removed. Can they please be reinstalled. It's behind burger station. Thanks Julie
- Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 20 Sept 2023
- Trees - General, 18 Sept 2023
Elsewhere on Rata Street
- 21 Rata Street, 9 reports
- 5 Rata Street, 4 reports
- 44 Rata Street, 4 reports
- 33 Rata Street, 4 reports
- 19 Rata Street, 4 reports
- 35 Rata Street, 3 reports
- 3 Rata Street, 3 reports
- 25 Rata Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rata Street in 3 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.
Rata 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
5 council reports on record since September 2023, most often poles and signage - general (2), trees - general (1), sewer - leak / blockage (1).
Riccarton, Christchurch, on Rata Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Riccarton Bush, 205 m to its edge, 12 ha.