1 Wairakei Road
2 council reports since August 2018, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 6 Wairakei Road, 50 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
- Plynlimon Park, 248 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 53 pieces
- Elmwood Park, 332 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The Elmwood Bar & Bistro, 37 m away · Restaurants
- Unichem, 55 m away · Pharmacies
- Elmwood Fine Foods, 61 m away · Cafés
- Normans Road Surgery, 66 m away · Doctors & clinics
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 Strowan, 5 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 5 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 39 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 66 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 66 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Strowan ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Pothole, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 13 Aug 2025 On the western side of train tracks at Wairakei Rd/Jeffreys Rd intersection
Roading/Streets, 21 Aug 2018
Potholes in the wheel path (both sides) driving west.
Elsewhere on Wairakei Road
- 6 Wairakei Road, 50 reports
- 17 Wairakei Road, 9 reports
- 30A Wairakei Road, 6 reports
- 46 Wairakei Road, 5 reports
- 44 Wairakei Road, 5 reports
- 14 Wairakei Road, 5 reports
- 3 Wairakei Road, 4 reports
- 50 Wairakei Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wairakei Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Fendalton ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Wairakei Road, the whole record → · Everything about Strowan → · 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 August 2018, most often roading/streets (1), pothole (1).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Wairakei Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Plynlimon Park, 248 m to its edge, 1 ha.