8 Strowan Road
4 council reports since April 2025, 3 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
- Elmwood Park, 74 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
- Plynlimon Park, 229 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, 173 m away · Business
- Elmwood Park Bowling Club, 187 m away · Clubs
- Elmwood Tennis Club, 187 m away · Clubs
- Tillman Wine Merchants, 232 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, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 29 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 131 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 187 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 237 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, 117 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Traffic Signals, 10 Oct 2026 When the lights at Heaton and glandovey where up graded recently we had a right turning arrow activated for traffic coming from straven road
Traffic Signals, 31 Jul 2026 Hey council! Why is the new green arrow on the glandovey strowan rossal heaton intersection not in use? I went through months on night works
- Road Signage, 13 May 2025
Flooding signs have been left out
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 7 Apr 2025 Tagging by FIMO On 3 fences Light poles Traffic lights Other council assets
Elsewhere on Strowan Road
- 51A Strowan Road, 9 reports
- 3 Strowan Road, 7 reports
- 53 Strowan Road, 6 reports
- 28 Strowan Road, 5 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
4 council reports on record since April 2025, most often traffic signals (2), road signage (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Strowan Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Elmwood Park, 74 m to its edge, 7 ha.