Harper Avenue
3 council reports at 1 address on Harper Avenue, Merivale, on record since August 2025.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Harper Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Merivale.
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 numbered spots
- 1 Harper Avenue, 3 reports
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 2 reports
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2025, 3 reports
Documents that name it
Records on the shelf that name Harper Avenue, 8 in total; the 7 earliest:
- The Harper Avenue · Kura Heritage Collections Online ·
Showing Harper Avenue in the Christchurch Industrial Exhibition, 1900. Auckland Weekly News; Photographs / He Whakaah…
- Intersection of Park Terrace, on the left, and Park Road (now Harper Avenue): horse-drawn wagons are shown crossing the Carlton bridge into Park Road. · Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection ·
Historic Photograph - Intersection of Park Terrace, on the left, and Park Road (now Harper Avenue) : horse-drawn wagons are shown crossing the Carlton bridge into Park Road. [1906] Christchurch…
- Carlton Bridge and Harper Avenue, Christchurch · Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection ·
Historic Photograph - Carlton Bridge and Harper Avenue, Christchurch [1932] Christchurch City Libraries Heritage Images Collection; Matapihi…
- View to Hagley Park with Harper Avenue and the eastern suburbs, Christchurch City, Canterbury Region · TAPUHI ·
- Holmwood Road and Fendalton Road aerial · Canterbury Stories ·
Aerial view of Christchurch, looking over Holmwood Road, Fendalton Road and Harper Avenue. 1973 Christchurch Star negative strips…
- Helmores Lane bridge · Canterbury Stories ·
…on the Helmores Lane bridge over the Avon River in Hagley Park near the intersection with Harper Avenue. 1975 Christchurch Star photographs…
- Ko tātou, tātou - we are one: What to expect from the national remembrance service · Radio New Zealand ·
…Avenue. Public access into North Hagley Park is only on foot, by bicycle or scooter; from Harper Avenue and Deans Avenue; from Riccarton Avenue through the Botanic Gardens; from Rolleston Avenue, via…
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The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Harper Avenue in 11 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
Latest on record
- Overgrown Vegetation at 1 Harper Ave, 7 Sept 2025
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure at 1 Harper Ave, 31 Aug 2025
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure at 1 Harper Ave, 31 Aug 2025
Questions, answered briefly
In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
3 reports at 1 address, most often graffiti & vandalism (2), trees & parks (1).
2025, the record covers 2 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.
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