Waimairi Road

264 reports at 74 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 218 separate days somebody filed something about it.

264 reports 74 addresses218 days reported onfrom the air, then 14 documents carry the name 8 businessesthe 274th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Waimairi Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.

From the air, then

Waimairi Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waimairi Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waimairi Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 addresses on it

62A Waimairi Road, 20 reports
45 Waimairi Road, 17 reports
53 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
47 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
38 Waimairi Road, 11 reports
10 Waimairi Road, 10 reports
59 Waimairi Road, 8 reports
3 Waimairi Road, 8 reports
42 Waimairi Road, 7 reports
70 Waimairi Road, 6 reports
63 Waimairi Road, 6 reports
41 Waimairi Road, 6 reports
30 Waimairi Road, 6 reports
1 Waimairi Road, 6 reports
68 Waimairi Road, 5 reports
66 Waimairi Road, 5 reports
61 Waimairi Road, 5 reports
9 Waimairi Road, 4 reports
85 Waimairi Road, 4 reports
62B Waimairi Road, 4 reports
57B Waimairi Road, 4 reports
54 Waimairi Road, 4 reports
40 Waimairi Road, 4 reports
33B Waimairi Road, 4 reports
90 Waimairi Road, 3 reports
64 Waimairi Road, 3 reports
58 Waimairi Road, 3 reports
50 Waimairi Road, 3 reports
40A Waimairi Road, 3 reports
36A Waimairi Road, 3 reports
11B Waimairi Road, 3 reports
11A Waimairi Road, 3 reports
95 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
83 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
81 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
71 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
65 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
58E Waimairi Road, 2 reports
39 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
36B Waimairi Road, 2 reports
35 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
31B Waimairi Road, 2 reports
27 Waimairi Road, 2 reports
15A Waimairi Road, 2 reports
76-88 Waimairi Road, 1 report
74 Waimairi Road, 1 report
73 Waimairi Road, 1 report
72 Waimairi Road, 1 report
7 Waimairi Road, 1 report
69B Waimairi Road, 1 report
67 Waimairi Road, 1 report
65A Waimairi Road, 1 report
63A Waimairi Road, 1 report
62 Waimairi Road, 1 report
60 Waimairi Road, 1 report
57C Waimairi Road, 1 report
56 Waimairi Road, 1 report
55 Waimairi Road, 1 report
43L Waimairi Road, 1 report
43K Waimairi Road, 1 report

and the other 14 the record names

43E Waimairi Road, 1 report
43 Waimairi Road, 1 report
42A Waimairi Road, 1 report
4 Waimairi Road, 1 report
36C Waimairi Road, 1 report
34 Waimairi Road, 1 report
33 Waimairi Road, 1 report
31 Waimairi Road, 1 report
21 Waimairi Road, 1 report
20 Waimairi Road, 1 report
2/20 Waimairi Road, 1 report
17 Waimairi Road, 1 report
11a Waimairi Road, 1 report
11 Waimairi Road, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 138 reports
Roads & footpaths, 50 reports
Water & drains, 27 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 25 reports
Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Everything else, 5 reports
Noise, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 1 report
2018, 1 report
2020, 5 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 27 reports
2023, 73 reports
2024, 55 reports
2025, 57 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 29 March 1851) · Papers Past, 29 Mar 1851
…the eastern boundary line of section 18 following the said line to itsjunc tion with the waimairi road and from thence following the said road to the starting point and numbered 80 on the chief surve…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 01 May 1852) · Papers Past, 1 May 1852
…roperty early in may a first rate 100 acre section of excellent land no 70 situate on the waimairi road near riccarton selected for the proprietor by the late william deans esq to be sold in plots var…
ROAD BOARDS. (Star, 18 April 1895) · Papers Past, 18 Apr 1895
…ntracts in progress was considered and approved and it was resolved that the drain on the waimairi road should be re-graded and widened when necessary also that the culvert at addington broken by a tr…
Aerial view of Christchurch Teachers' College · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1970
…ege from Solway Avenue on the corner with Dovedale Street looking towards Ilam Fields and Waimairi Road. Aerial views of Christchurch…
Brent Hesselyn and his windmill sculpture · Canterbury Stories, 4 Oct 1971
Brent Hesselyn and his windmill sculpture outside College House on Waimairi Road. 1971 Christchurch Star negative strips…
LIST OF · New Zealand Gazette, 9 Jun 2000
…P.O. Box 8668, Christchurch 28-Jul-82Wilkinson, Philip Walter Unit 8, Peerswick Court, 43 Waimairi Road, Christchurch 30-Nov-81Willis, Robin Alexander Telfer Young, P.O. Box 2532, Christchurch 8-Apr-9…
REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 22 Aug 2000
…harmacy Limited Centre City Plaza, 148 High Street, LOWER HUTT Ilam Pharmacy Limited 203A Waimairi Road, Ilam, CHRISTCHURCH In-House Pharmacy (Albany) Limited The Warehouse Mall, 11 Coliseum Drive, AL…
supplement · New Zealand Gazette, 24 Aug 2001
…Pharmacy Limited Centre City Plaza, 148 High Street, LOWER HUTTIlam Pharmacy Limited 203A Waimairi Road, Ilam, CHRISTCHURCHIn-House Pharmacy (Albany) Limited The Warehouse Mall, 11 Coliseum Drive, Alb…
LIST OF PUBLIC VALUERS · New Zealand Gazette, 24 Aug 2001
…hmans Road, R.D. 1, Rangiora 3-Jul-75Wilkinson, Philip Walter Unit 8, Peerswick Court, 43 Waimairi Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 30-Nov-81Williams, Barry Noel Williams & Associates, P.O. Box 866…
List of Public Valuers · New Zealand Gazette, 29 May 2002
…P.O. Box 43, Christchurch 23-Aug-1996Wilkinson, Philip Walter Unit 8, Peerswick Court, 43 Waimairi Road, Upper Riccarton, Christchurch 30-Nov-1981Williams, Barry Noel Williams & Associates, P.O. Box 8…
supplement · New Zealand Gazette, 16 Aug 2002
…Pharmacy Limited Centre City Plaza, 148 High Street, LOWER HUTTIlam Pharmacy Limited 209 Waimairi Road, Ilam, CHRISTCHURCHIn-House Pharmacy (Albany) Limited The Warehouse, Mall 11, Coliseum Drive, Al…
REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 29 Aug 2003
…Pharmacy Limited Centre City Plaza, 148 High Street, LOWER HUTTIlam Pharmacy Limited 209 Waimairi Road, Ilam, CHRISTCHURCHIn-House Pharmacy (Albany) Limited The Warehouse Mall, 11 Coliseum Drive, Alb…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 8

Premises whose address in the directory is Waimairi Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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.

Avon Stream stream · 14 m away Avon Stream / Haereroa stream · 15 m away Avon Stream / Ōrakipaoa stream · 19 m away Ilam Stream stream · 147 m away Peer Reserve set of steps · 113 m away Peer Reserve set of steps · 142 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waimairi Road in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Maidstone Road & Waimairi Road, 84 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.