1 Waimairi Road
6 council reports since September 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 62A Waimairi Road, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road (35m)
- Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road (47m)
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road (152m)
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
- Auburn Reserve, 148 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Hansons Reserve, 226 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Smoke Shack - Bush Inn, 4 m away · Restaurants
- House of Travel, 6 m away · Travel agents
- Ray White, 13 m away · Real estate
- Anytime Fitness, 21 m away · Gyms & fitness
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Church Corner, 89 m away · route 5, route 86, route 100, route 130, route 140
- Church Corner, 124 m away · route 5, route 86, route 100, route 130, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 12 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 21 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 38 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 493 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 495 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The remembered names nearby
- Subscribers / Please Include Your Name When Returning Books, 37 m away ·
SUBSCRIBERS / PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME WHEN RETURNING BOOKS
· 2025 - This Stone Was Laid by Lady Bowen 15th March 1919 Trustees, 40 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY LADY BOWEN 15TH MARCH 1919 TRUSTEES J.E. HANSON, GEO. FORSYTH, T.O.
· 2025
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2
- Street Light Outage, 1
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 21 Oct 2025 Hi. Traffic turning left into Waimairi rd from riccarton rd. You've removed the free turn lane so now Traffic blocks riccarton rd Traffic es
Street Light Outage, 16 Oct 2025 Street light not working at NW corner on Waimairi
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 Apr 2025 Graffiti on rubbish bin
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 19 Apr 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 14 Jan 2025- Damaged Road, 15 Sept 2023
Elsewhere on Waimairi Road
- 62A Waimairi Road, 20 reports
- 45 Waimairi Road, 17 reports
- 53 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
- 47 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
- 38 Waimairi Road, 11 reports
- 10 Waimairi Road, 10 reports
- 59 Waimairi Road, 8 reports
- 3 Waimairi Road, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waimairi Road in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton 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.
Waimairi Road, the whole record → · Everything about Upper Riccarton → · 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 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), street light outage (1), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Waimairi Road.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Bush Inn Hotel and Setting.
Auburn Reserve, 148 m to its edge, 1 ha.