581 Buchanans Road
2 council reports since February 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Buchanans 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
- Rimu Park, 172 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Yaldhurst Bush, 395 m to the edge · 6 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Yaldhurst Cemetery, you are in it · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Scout Camp, 260 m away · Campgrounds
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Dedicated to / Scripto Siohane / With Love From Your Girls, 29 m away ·
Dedicated to / SCRIPTO SIOHANE / With love from your girls
- Jo / We Keep This Love in a Photograph, 31 m away ·
JO / We keep this love in a photograph / We made these memories for ourselves / Where our
- In Loving Memory / of Libby Hart, 150 m away ·
IN LOVING MEMORY / OF LIBBY HART
· 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 Templeton 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 20 Feb 2025 Broken pale onpark bench in green burial area needs replacing
Pest / Vermin, 20 Feb 2025 Wasp nest in grasses garden at front of green burial area Cone left to identify
Elsewhere on Buchanans Road
- 566 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
- 622 Buchanans Road, 1 report
- 573 Buchanans Road, 1 report
- 519–543 Buchanans Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Buchanans Road, the whole record → · Everything about Templeton → · 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
2 council reports on record since February 2025, most often pest / vermin (1), park - general request (1).
Templeton, Christchurch, on Buchanans Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rimu Park, 172 m to its edge, 2 ha.