54 Akaroa Street
11 council reports since June 2019, 8 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
- Macfarlane Park, 138 m to the edge · Sports ground · 8 ha · playground, 54 pieces
- Havana Gardens Reserve, 224 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Sanctuary Gardens Reserve, 404 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sushi Ball House, 58 m away · Restaurants
- Wicked Fish & Chip Shop, 85 m away · Fast food
- Briggston Fish Supply, 96 m away · Fast food
- Briggston Chinese Takeaway & Fish'n Chips, 108 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Emmett St near Skipton St, 66 m away · route 44
- Briggs Rd, 82 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 185 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 299 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 378 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 479 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 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 8 on record
What’s on record
- Traffic Signals, 10 Aug 2026
This intersection is super dangerous, multiple busy roads meeting, bends in the road and a car park entry. There is however heaps of unused
Damaged Street Sign, 30 Aug 2025 Illegible road name
- Road Signage, 4 May 2025
There is a large sign on the corner of Emmet and Akaora st, with "Thank you" on it that is an obstruction of view when exiting Emmet street.
Road Signage, 4 May 2025 It is traffic hazard block clear view of oncoming vehicles on a really hazardous intersection
Road Signage, 25 Apr 2025 This sign is blocking clear view of on coming cars almost had an accident because of this sign
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Mar 2025 Corner of Briggs road and Akaroa.
- Graffiti, 29 Dec 2022
Graffiti, 10 Jun 2022 On blue arrow sign on traffic island on Akaroa St/ Briggs Rd at intersection with Emmett St
Graffiti, 5 Nov 2020 on power pole at intersection of Emmett St and Akaroa St.
Graffiti, 15 Oct 2020 at intersection of Emmett St and Briggs Rd/ Akaroa St. on round blue directional arrow sign in centre island
Graffiti, 6 Jun 2019
Shirley Village Project Graffiti Clean up. On power / light pole at intersection.of Akaroa St and Briggs Rd
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Akaroa Street in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Akaroa Street, 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
11 council reports on record since June 2019, most often graffiti (5), road signage (3), traffic signals (1).
Shirley, Christchurch, on Akaroa Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Macfarlane Park, 138 m to its edge, 8 ha.