5 Penwood Street
6 council reports since November 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Penwood Street, 11 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
- Pinehurst Reserve, 50 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Calbreath Reserve, 260 m to the edge · playground, 17 pieces
- Karnak Reserve, 394 m to the edge
- Avonhead Park, 413 m to the edge · Sports ground · 23 ha
- Crosbie Park, 441 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 76 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Plunket, 94 m away · Centre
- Pioneers Cafe - Russley Road, 244 m away · Restaurants
- Passengers + Co, 245 m away · Cafés
- Ryman Healthcare Christchurch, 250 m away · Company
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Russley, 262 m away · route 125, route 140
- Bentley St near Pinehurst Cres, 271 m away · route 125, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 22 Mar 2026 just curious if council has been spraying here and then sprayed this front berm. it's killed the grass.
Abandoned Vehicle, 22 Jan 2025 This vehicle has been in the street the last few days it appears to be abandoned
Hazard, vehicle, 6 Dec 2024 Car has been park over the time limit and hasn't moved. This street is narrow and the car here overtime and is not safe for the local sch
- Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Oct 2023
Roading/Streets, 9 Dec 2021 Trees bushes need trimming. Very difficult to pass and stay on the footpath
Roading/Streets, 16 Nov 2021 Path overgrown, bushes over footpath restricting egress
Elsewhere on Penwood Street
- 2 Penwood Street, 11 reports
- 8 Penwood Street, 5 reports
- 3 Penwood Street, 5 reports
- 22 Penwood Street, 5 reports
- 1 Penwood Street, 4 reports
- 7 Penwood Street, 3 reports
- 2A Penwood Street, 2 reports
- 10 Penwood Street, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Waimairi ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Penwood Street, the whole record → · Everything about Russley → · 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
6 council reports on record since November 2021, most often roading/streets (2), pavement - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Russley, Christchurch, on Penwood Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Pinehurst Reserve, 50 m to its edge.