# 269 River Road, Richmond

2 reports on record since February 2026 · 2 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/richmond/269-river-road

## What gets reported here
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/problems/parks-maintenance), 1
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/problems/dumped-rubbish), 1

## Reported here
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8301940), 24 May 2026
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/7785538), 22 Feb 2026

## Photographed here (2 on record)
- [Park - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/8301940), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/08301940/public/1_2cr2833vjehe.jpg
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/7785538), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/07785538/public/1_mf4a2diktt3.jpg

[More photographs on the Richmond wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=richmond)

## Also reported on River Road
- [213 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/213-river-road), 61 reports
- [27 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/27-river-road), 47 reports
- [321 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/321-river-road), 46 reports
- [357 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/357-river-road), 43 reports
- [251 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/251-river-road), 33 reports
- [154 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/154-river-road), 33 reports
- [367 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/367-river-road), 30 reports
- [201 River Road](https://www.chch.live/richmond/201-river-road), 29 reports
- [River Road, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/richmond/river-road)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5196&lon=172.6619&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5196&lon=172.6619&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5196&lon=172.6619&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [The Green Lab - Riverlution](https://www.chch.live/business/the-green-lab-riverlution-richmond), 145 m away · Cafés
- [Riverlution Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/riverlution-cafe-richmond), 248 m away · Cafés
- [Woodford Glen Shop](https://www.chch.live/business/woodford-glen-shop-richmond), 318 m away · Business
- [Alpha Auto & Tyres](https://www.chch.live/business/alpha-auto-tyres-richmond), 324 m away · Car repair

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- N Avon Rd near Chrystal St, 360 m away · [route 60](https://www.chch.live/buses/60), [the Orbiter (anticlockwise)](https://www.chch.live/buses/oa)
- N Avon Rd near Tweed St, 373 m away · [route 60](https://www.chch.live/buses/60), [the Orbiter (clockwise)](https://www.chch.live/buses/oc)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## The remembered names nearby
- [1932 – 1992 This Tåtara Was Planted to Commemorate](https://www.chch.live/plaque/59089-avebury-park), 112 m away, “1932 – 1992 This tÅtara was planted to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Founding o…” · 2009
- [Rene Griffith Died 6th July 2005 Aged 96 in Surrey, England](https://www.chch.live/plaque/59094-avebury-park), 135 m away, “RENE GRIFFITH Died 6th July 2005 aged 96 in Surrey, England This place was a favourite in…” · 2009
- [Donated by N.Z. Founders Society Inc. Canterbury Branch](https://www.chch.live/plaque/59101-avebury-park), 142 m away, “Donated by N.Z. Founders Society Inc. Canterbury Branch September 2007” · 2009

*The plaque pins come from the register, a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## The rating valuation
- Capital value: $1,900,000, land $1,900,000, improvements $0 · 61,997 m² · ref 22350/16100 · roll last edited February 2026

A mass appraisal the council runs every three years to divide the rates bill, not a market price, and not a valuation of this house in particular.

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Banks Avenue School](https://www.chch.live/school/3289-banks-avenue-school), Primary, years 1–6, in force from Aug 2020
- [Shirley Intermediate](https://www.chch.live/school/3503-shirley-intermediate), Intermediate, years 7–8, in force from Jan 2024
- [St Francis of Assisi Catholic School](https://www.chch.live/school/738-st-francis-of-assisi-catholic-school), Primary, years 1–8, in force from Jan 2027
- [Mairehau High School](https://www.chch.live/school/320-mairehau-high-school), Secondary, years 9–13, in force from Jan 2020
- [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2026

## Bin day (Thursdays)

Bins go out Thursday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week One
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week One

This address is on the council’s Week One calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### [What the ground is](https://www.chch.live/ground)
- **Up to 99% chance of moderate-to-severe land damage**, [Liquefaction](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · Across 30 modelled earthquake scenarios: 49% average likelihood of moderate-to-severe land damage, 99% in the worst modelled scenario.
- **Liquefaction was mapped here after the February 2011 earthquake**, [Liquefied in February 2011](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · The survey recorded this as certain. Mapped from aerial imagery and site visits after the event, this is a record of what happened, not a model of what might.
- **Liquefaction was mapped here after the September 2010 earthquake**, [Liquefied in September 2010](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · The survey recorded this as certain. Mapped from aerial imagery and site visits after the event, this is a record of what happened, not a model of what might.
- **In the residential red zone**, [Residential red zone](https://www.chch.live/redzone) · Land repair would be prolonged and uneconomic. Land here was zoned after the 2010-11 earthquakes and almost all of it has since been cleared.

### Water
- **This land flooded in 2011-2014**, [Has flooded before](https://www.chch.live/floods) · 2011-2014 Flooding - Mayoral Flood Taskforce
- **Blue tsunami evacuation zone**, [Tsunami evacuation](https://www.chch.live/tsunami) · Evacuate zone after long or strong earthquake or in any official advisory or warning of greater than 0.3m wave height at coast _Zone includes sea, rivers, beaches, lagoons and estuaries._

### [Rules on this land](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- **Christchurch / Ōtautahi Clean Air Zone**, [Clean air zone](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Open fires and older woodburners are restricted here under the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. A burner installed before 2001 cannot be replaced like for like.
- **In the Christchurch Airshed**, [Gazetted airshed](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A gazetted airshed is the area the national air quality standard is measured over, the 24-hour PM10 average that this one is allowed to breach once a year. _Zone A_
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Areas of high deprivation**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Freeze on the issue of new off-licences, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences a set distance of this site.

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names River Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 3 seriously hurt.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=river-road&suburb=richmond)

## Renting nearby

New bonds in Richmond ran about **$499 a week**, $51 below the city median of $550, [the suburb page keeps the rent record →](https://www.chch.live/richmond#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Central ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/central), the [Papanui-Innes-Central community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/papanui-innes-central) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here, Dwelling and Setting, Avebury
*138 m away · 9 Eveleyn Couzins Avenue · located to ±14 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/440)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here, MED Substation and Setting
*227 m away · 11 Retreat Road · located to ±5 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/290)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## The green nearby
- [Avon Riverbank True Right](https://www.chch.live/park/1890-avon-riverbank-true-right), 97 m to the edge · 11 ha
- [Avebury Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1019-avebury-park), 98 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 8 pieces
- [Richmond Playground](https://www.chch.live/park/1205-richmond-playground), 455 m to the edge · playground, 14 pieces
- [Retreat Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/957-retreat-reserve), 465 m to the edge

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Richmond](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-50-dallington), 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Richmond](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-52-richmond), 95 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Richmond](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-54-avonside), 110 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Richmond](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-37-richmond), 317 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Richmond](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-587-richmond), 444 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 269 River Road?**

2 council reports on record since February 2026, most often park - general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).

**What school is 269 River Road zoned for?**

[Banks Avenue School](https://www.chch.live/school/3289-banks-avenue-school), [Shirley Intermediate](https://www.chch.live/school/3503-shirley-intermediate), [St Francis of Assisi Catholic School](https://www.chch.live/school/738-st-francis-of-assisi-catholic-school), [Mairehau High School](https://www.chch.live/school/320-mairehau-high-school) and [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), and inside the region-wide zone of Hagley Community College, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.51955222972748,172.66188049282692)

**Which suburb is 269 River Road in?**

Richmond, Christchurch, on [River Road](https://www.chch.live/street/richmond/river-road).

**What stood at 269 River Road before?**

The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, [Dwelling and Setting, Avebury](https://www.chch.live/place/440), [MED Substation and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/290).

**What is the nearest park to 269 River Road?**

[Avon Riverbank True Right](https://www.chch.live/park/1890-avon-riverbank-true-right), 97 m to its edge, 11 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=richmond&address=269-river-road · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Richmond&street=river-road
