139 Rossall Street
5 council reports since April 2022, 5 carrying a photograph.
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
- Elmwood Park, 70 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
- Plynlimon Park, 254 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 53 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- House Of Huia, 139 m away · Business
- Elmwood Park Bowling Club, 203 m away · Clubs
- Elmwood Tennis Club, 203 m away · Clubs
- Tillman Wine Merchants, 259 m away · Bottle stores
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, 4 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 134 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 213 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 258 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.
The remembered names nearby
- In Memory of / Jean Nichol / 1931-2006, 131 m away ·
In memory of / Jean Nichol / 1931-2006
· 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 Strowan ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 9 Aug 2026 No green right turning arrow now to safely turn right and clear the intersection. It did function for a short period after the new traffic s
Traffic Signals, 15 May 2026 The new traffic light at the intersection of Heaton St and Rossall St Christchurch are causing major traffic delays that weren't there prior
Traffic Signals, 19 Mar 2026 the pedestrian crossing button in the SW corner of this intersection had no audio. not sure about the others.
Overgrown Vegetation, 31 Jan 2024 Private tree at 158 Glandovey Road is blocking the primary traffic signals and CCTV on Rossall Street. Cannot see lanterns when on the left
Graffiti, 3 Apr 2022 On traffic signal pole with camera, rossall St glandovey intersection
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Rossall Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Rossall Street, 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
5 council reports on record since April 2022, most often traffic signals (3), overgrown vegetation (1), graffiti (1).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Rossall Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Elmwood Park, 70 m to its edge, 7 ha.




