17 Wairakei Road

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, 351 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

• RJ Begg & Associates, 88 m away · Dentists
• The Crater Rim, 122 m away · Bottle stores
• The Elmwood Bar & Bistro, 243 m away · Restaurants
• Super Liquor Elmwood, 255 m away · Bottle stores

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Wairakei Rd near Idris Rd, 24 m away · route 8
• Wairakei Rd near Chislehurst Pl, 200 m away · route 17

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Strowan, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Strowan, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Strowan, 108 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Strowan, 198 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Strowan, 235 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

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

• Rubbish and Bins - General, 3
• Dumped Rubbish, 3
• Hazard, vehicle, 2
• Noise - Construction, 1

Photographed here 5 on record

more photographs
on the Strowan wall →

What’s on record

• Noise - Construction, 16 Mar 2026 Road outside our place every night starting from about 7pm and didn’t stop until late midnight. I have two sick kids and their bed time is a
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 7 Mar 2026 Road works outside our place and bins were not collected on the past Friday. Any updates when this can be collected? I think the whole area
• Dumped Rubbish, 27 Jan 2026 Hi we have this dumped outside of our fence. Pretty annoying could you please help remove it? Thanks a million!
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 18 Jan 2026 Hi our red bins lid had some cracks but it’s been hung on there for a while till the last rubbish collection on Thursday, the lid was totall
• Dumped Rubbish, 25 Aug 2024 A guy from across the road has been moving all his big furnitures from his house and dumped outside of our house. That started around 3am an
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 25 Aug 2024 Man from Across the road is dumping big loads of rubbish.
• Dumped Rubbish, 13 Apr 2024 Scrap wood disguised as ‘free’. It’s been more than a week untouched….
• Hazard, vehicle, 17 Dec 2022
• Hazard, vehicle, 26 Nov 2022

Elsewhere on Wairakei Road

• 6 Wairakei Road, 50 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
• 36 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 crashes it names, each one →

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.