3 Alpha Avenue
3 council reports since May 2021, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 37 Alpha Avenue, 10 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
- Elmwood Park, 222 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
- Plynlimon Park, 301 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
- Seletti Concept Store, 3 m away · Business
- Elmwood Fish, Chips & Burgers, 4 m away · Fast food
- Holmwood & Rossall Hair Dressing, 7 m away · Hairdressers
- Café Berlin, 11 m away · Cafés
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, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 100 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 100 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 114 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Parks, 24 Mar 2022 Could these hedges please be trimmed. They have not had a cut for the last 2 years. The garden hedgeonthecornet of st Andrews square and Nor
Graffiti, 2 Jul 2021 outside seleti concept store.
Parks, 17 May 2021 Can the garden area at both ends of Alpha Ave have their regular winter tidy please. many thanks Julie
Elsewhere on Alpha Avenue
- 37 Alpha Avenue, 10 reports
- 40 Alpha Avenue, 7 reports
- 35 Alpha Avenue, 4 reports
- 26 Alpha Avenue, 4 reports
- 44 Alpha Avenue, 3 reports
- 38 Alpha Avenue, 2 reports
- 12 Alpha Avenue, 2 reports
- 9 Alpha Avenue, 1 report
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.
Alpha Avenue, 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
3 council reports on record since May 2021, most often parks (2), graffiti (1).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Alpha Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Elmwood Park, 222 m to its edge, 7 ha.


