42 Hawkesbury Avenue
7 council reports since February 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Hawkesbury Avenue.
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
- Malvern Park, 364 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 62 pieces
- Knowles Plantation, 433 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Meshino Cafe, 151 m away · Restaurants
- Rutland Fish n' Chips, 158 m away · Fast food
- Meshino Espresso, 163 m away · Cafés
- Merivale Retirement Village, 221 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Springfield Rd near St Albans St, 381 m away · route 100
- Springfield Rd near St Albans St, 411 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 164 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 169 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 194 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 279 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, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Saint Albans ran about $514 a week, $36 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 14 Feb 2026 Concrete umbrella stand left outside our gate.
Dumped Rubbish, 27 Sept 2025 Dumped tree cuttings on the corner of Hawkesbury and Somme Streets.
Hazard, vehicle, 1 Aug 2025 Parked over our driveway on Somme Street.
Road Signage, 22 Apr 2025 Nothing there
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Oct 2023
- Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 23 Jul 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Feb 2023
Elsewhere on Hawkesbury Avenue
- 44 Hawkesbury Avenue, 4 reports
- 32 Hawkesbury Avenue, 4 reports
- 60 Hawkesbury Avenue, 3 reports
- 9 Hawkesbury Avenue, 2 reports
- 72 Hawkesbury Avenue, 2 reports
- 6 Hawkesbury Avenue, 2 reports
- 59 Hawkesbury Avenue, 2 reports
- 14A Hawkesbury Avenue, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Innes ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Hawkesbury Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Saint Albans → · 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
7 council reports on record since February 2023, most often dumped rubbish (3), sewer - leak / blockage (1), road signage (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Hawkesbury Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Malvern Park, 364 m to its edge, 3 ha.



