54 Athelstan Street, Spreydon
68 reports on record since March 2024 · 68 with photographs. The most-reported address on Athelstan Street. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Playground Equipment — 23
- Rubbish and Bins - General — 19
- Park - General Request — 6
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park — 6
- Pavement - Damaged — 3
- Facility - General Request — 3
Photographed here 68 on record
Reported here
Street Gutters / Storm Water — Blocked drain on the boundary of the Barrington Park
Playground Equipment — chain on playground is broken
Park - General Request — Sign
Playground Equipment — Turning wheel of musical piano instrument on children's playground forcibly removed. Difficult for toddlers to use in its current state
Playground Equipment — Raised nail head on the deck of the swinging bar apparatus.
Dumped Rubbish — The bin in the children's play area, next to Barrington Mall is overflowing.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — inappropriate graffiti written on playground
Rubbish and Bins - General — Bin overflowing at Barrington playground
Rubbish and Bins - General —
Rubbish and Bins - General — Overflowing council bin
Park - General Request — The gate towards Barrington Mall from the playground is locked shut. The detour is crossing a tight road. All good for adults, bit sketchy
Park - General Request — Broken gate at playground
Playground Equipment — The child-safe gate to the Barrington playground from the mall car park situated opposite flight centre, is not attached at the bottom hinge
Facility - General Request — Broken gate with broken hinge next to playground
Playground Equipment — Ladder rung cracked through, might break off unexpectedly.
Rubbish and Bins - General —
Rubbish and Bins - General — Pse collect this rubbish
Playground Equipment — The gate to the playground won’t open, the kiddy latch appears locked. So many parents are getting caught by this.
Playground Equipment — Gate to access Barringhton park playground is locked.
Park - General Request — The gate between the carpark and the playground at Barrington Mall is locked.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Barrington park full bin
Playground Equipment — Broken patch of slide could cause cuts when sliding down. Looks to have been temporarily repaired with tape but tape now gone
Park - General Request — Abandoned push chair at playground
Playground Equipment — Plastic on green slide cracked at the top.
Pest / Vermin — There is a wasp nest in the bushes by the fence in kids playground (Barrington Park) that needs removing before kids get stung
Playground Equipment — The merry go round at Barrington park has deep cracks in the soft surface which are a tripping hazard for people pushing the play equipment.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Barrington park bin jammed and door Won’t open
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Graffiti on a light pole at Barrington Park, the closest one to the bowling club.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — Graffiti on Park bench at Barrington Park Playground. The bench is in the middle of a concrete area next to the playground.
Playground Equipment — Soft matting around the merry-go-round has been significantly damaged. 2 kids tripped on the holes today.
Playground Equipment — Screw in pole isn’t in correctly and can’t be screwed back in by hand
Facility - General Request — Street cone in hedge at park
Playground Equipment — Hey council :) A Mum posted on our community page that the plastic slide is split and her daughter got stuck by her skirt. She doesn’t know
Playground Equipment — The green slide in Barrington Park has a break in it and is catching kids clothes so needs to be repaired.
Playground Equipment — Plums rotting on playground equipment - needs cleaning please as they are slippery and a choking hazard for young children.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Very full
Rubbish and Bins - General — Overflowing bins
Playground Equipment — Slide large gash at top of green slide
Playground Equipment — Barrington playground - Spring on bouncy table is detached, making table unstable.
Facility - General Request — Lots of graffiti on park bench at Barrington Park Playground
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — The climbing feature in the playground has non appropriate graffiti on it.
Playground Equipment — Large hole in the ground missing a cover. My child's foot fell in causing him to fall, no injury.
Street Gutters / Storm Water — Missing grate causing trip hazard at playground
Playground Equipment — Broken d shackle
Park - General Request — Missing SW dump lid
Pavement - Damaged — Drain cover removed on the pavement in the middle of the playground
Pavement - Damaged — Huge whole Will break a ankle
Playground Equipment — Cover missing in path, major trip hazard for kids
Rubbish and Bins - General — The bin is full and litter everywhere.
Playground Equipment — Someone has put white stuff all over the swings at barrington Park, it is still wet
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — Graffiti on rock structure
Rubbish and Bins - General —
Dumped Rubbish — Rubbish bin overflowing
Rubbish and Bins - General — Full??
Rubbish and Bins - General — The bin at the playground next to Barrington Mall needs emptying more often. It's always stuffed full and overflowing with pizza boxes and t
Litter — Litter bin needs emptying
Playground Equipment — This is jammed up and very hard to turn.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Bin full
Rubbish and Bins - General — In lid stuck with rubbish
Rubbish and Bins - General —
Rubbish and Bins - General — Bin full park
Litter — Litter bin needs to be emptied
Rubbish and Bins - General — Bin full
Rubbish and Bins - General — Bin overflowing
Pavement - Damaged — Tree root has lifted footpath considerably on the path to the gate for barrington park when walked from mall carpark. Entrance closest to li
Playground Equipment — Gate lock is broken at playground
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — On the swing at the playground
Graffiti on a playground or in a park — Various graffiti throughout playground including nazi slogans
Also reported on Athelstan Street
- 8 Athelstan Street — 11 reports
- 7 Athelstan Street — 6 reports
- 22 Athelstan Street — 4 reports
- 46 Athelstan Street — 3 reports
- 34 Athelstan Street — 3 reports
- 20 Athelstan Street — 3 reports
- 18 Athelstan Street — 2 reports
- 14/18 Athelstan Street — 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Athelstan Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006 — 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The green nearby
- Barrington Park — you are in it · Sports ground · 6 ha
- Cheviot Reserve — 362 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Spreydon Library — 63 m away · Library · 266 Barrington St, Spreydon, Christchurch 8024
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Burrito Guyz — 68 m away · Fast food
- Flight Centre — 70 m away · Travel agents
- Freedom Health — 70 m away · Physio
- Pizza Hut — 70 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington Mall (Barrington St) — 93 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Barrington Mall (Barrington St) — 107 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon — 83 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon — 146 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon — 193 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon — 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon — 255 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register — bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby — the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- These Gates Were Presented and Erected in 1926 — 70 m away ·
THESE GATES WERE PRESENTED AND ERECTED IN 1926 BY W. H. WINSOR ESQ. MAYOR OF SPREYDON 1915
· 2008 - Kelvin & Gaye Shamy — 105 m away ·
Kelvin & Gaye Shamy / 28-9-1932 - 18-9-2008 31-3-1934 - 19-7-2009 / True models of love an
· 2013
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 Spreydon ran about $555 a week — about the city median — the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What was here — Barrington Park Gates
on this spot · located to ±234 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
68 council reports on record since March 2024 — most often playground equipment (23), rubbish and bins - general (19), park - general request (6).
Spreydon, Christchurch — on Athelstan Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it — Barrington Park Gates.
Barrington Park — the address is inside it, 6 ha.











