70 Bletsoe Avenue
4 council reports since December 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 87 Bletsoe Avenue, 21 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
- Antigua Reserve, 325 m to the edge
- Selwyn Reserve, 447 m to the edge
- Ruskin Reserve, 475 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Bradford Park, 479 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 484 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
- Riccarton Players, 254 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Bottle O Selwyn Street, 361 m away · Bottle stores
- Pies and Coffee, 370 m away · Cafés
- Selwyn Street Medical Centre, 372 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Selwyn St near Bletsoe Ave, 230 m away · route 60
- Brougham St near James K Baxter Pl, 235 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 148 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 268 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 373 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 399 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 Spreydon ran about $555 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Pavement - Damaged, 2
- Pit and Equipment - General, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 7 Feb 2025 At 1/78 Bletsoe Avenue there is a large uncovered hole with red bush in it in garden next to the grass verge which has been like this for mo
Pavement - Damaged, 5 Nov 2024 Sinkhole
Pit and Equipment - General, 12 Feb 2024 Dumped furniture
Pavement - Damaged, 14 Dec 2023 Heavy construction vehicles have deeply damaged footpath. Presents high trip hazard. Footpath should either be covered or closed with barrie
Elsewhere on Bletsoe Avenue
- 87 Bletsoe Avenue, 21 reports
- 86 Bletsoe Avenue, 10 reports
- 59A Bletsoe Avenue, 7 reports
- 46 Bletsoe Avenue, 7 reports
- 37 Bletsoe Avenue, 5 reports
- 35 Bletsoe Avenue, 5 reports
- 18 Bletsoe Avenue, 5 reports
- 44 Bletsoe Avenue, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bletsoe Avenue in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Bletsoe Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Spreydon → · 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
4 council reports on record since December 2023, most often pavement - damaged (2), pit and equipment - general (1), general request (1).
Spreydon, Christchurch, on Bletsoe Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Antigua Reserve, 325 m to its edge.



