2 Cresswell Avenue
6 council reports since July 2019, 2 carrying a photograph.
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
- Burwood Park, 73 m to the edge · Sports ground · 14 ha · playground, 49 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Shirley Library, 463 m away · Library
- Shirley Service Centre, 463 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Adana Grill, 273 m away · Fast food
- Hungry Wok, 273 m away · Fast food
- McDonald's, 274 m away · Fast food
- Mi Amor, 276 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- New Brighton Rd near Horseshoe Lake Rd, 24 m away · route 7, route 44, route 110
- New Brighton Rd near Bampton St, 72 m away · route 7, route 44, route 110
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 294 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 434 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 449 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Burwood Park plaque, 217 m away · 2009
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 Shirley ran about $575 a week, $25 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Jun 2025 Bastards graffiti’d my fence please help as I don’t have a water blaster to get it off
- Water Leak, 20 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 20 Feb 2023
- Graffiti, 1 Jan 2023
- Graffiti, 30 Sept 2022
Graffiti, 13 Jul 2019
The civic layer
This ground votes in Burwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Cresswell Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Shirley → · 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 July 2019, most often graffiti (4), water leak (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Shirley, Christchurch, on Cresswell Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Burwood Park, 73 m to its edge, 14 ha.