53 Strowan Road
6 council reports since September 2017, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 51A Strowan Road, 9 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, 227 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 53 pieces
- Elmwood Park, 308 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, 28 m away · Restaurants
- Unichem, 44 m away · Pharmacies
- Elmwood Fine Foods, 47 m away · Cafés
- Normans Road Surgery, 63 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, 16 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 16 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 63 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 21 Dec 2025 I don’t believe that the bike crossing like works. The only way to cross is to use the pedestrian button
Traffic Signals, 27 Nov 2025 Traffic signal hood green aspect westbound is hanging off obstructing signal. City council railway crossing buck on traffic signal mast is
Pavement - Damaged, 14 Mar 2025 Wire grid has lifted in several areas. I tripped on it. Luckily I didn’t fall but consequences for me would be bad as I had a knee replaceme
Pavement - Damaged, 29 Jul 2024 Chicken wire anti slip on shared path bridge. Wairakei Road crossing. Wire has lifted, is loose and flopping. A hazard which could get caugh
Roading/Streets, 2 Mar 2021 vegetation needs trimming. footpath is very narrow as a result of growth
Roading/Streets, 21 Sept 2017
Traffic light fault. The northbound cycle demand sensor (square wire in pavement ) and the button no longer work. The pedestrian weight sens
Elsewhere on Strowan Road
- 51A Strowan Road, 9 reports
- 3 Strowan Road, 7 reports
- 28 Strowan Road, 5 reports
- 8 Strowan Road, 4 reports
- 30 Strowan Road, 3 reports
- 14 Strowan Road, 3 reports
- 8A Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 52 Strowan Road, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Strowan Road in 25 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 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.
Strowan 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
6 council reports on record since September 2017, most often traffic signals (2), roading/streets (2), pavement - damaged (2).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Strowan Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Plynlimon Park, 227 m to its edge, 1 ha.