55 Vardon Crescent
2 council reports since October 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 56 Vardon Crescent, 9 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
- Wilmington Reserve, 209 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Fairway Reserve, 211 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Pagoda Playground, 262 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Lytham Reserve, 343 m to the edge
- Oakmont Reserve, 361 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
- Esquires Cafe, 258 m away · Cafés
- Pocket Save, 258 m away · Variety Store
- Anytime Fitness, 274 m away · Gyms & fitness
- BB's Cafe Homebase Shirley, 279 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
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, 239 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
- Fallen Tree, 2
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 3 Nov 2025 Damaged tree
Fallen Tree, 26 Oct 2025 After the strong winds and weather event last week the tree outside 57 Vardon Crescent has collapsed and fallen down we take great pride in
Elsewhere on Vardon Crescent
- 56 Vardon Crescent, 9 reports
- 7 Vardon Crescent, 4 reports
- 2 Vardon Crescent, 3 reports
- 8 Vardon Crescent, 2 reports
- 69 Vardon Crescent, 2 reports
- 26 Vardon Crescent, 2 reports
- 9 Vardon Crescent, 1 report
- 5 Vardon Crescent, 1 report
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.
Vardon Crescent, 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
2 council reports on record since October 2025, most often fallen tree (2).
Shirley, Christchurch, on Vardon Crescent.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Wilmington Reserve, 209 m to its edge, 2 ha.