16 Balgay Street
3 council reports since November 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 51 Balgay Street, 19 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
- Milnebank Reserve, 53 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Auburn Reserve, 328 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Middleton Park, 418 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Apollo Motel, 115 m away · Motels
- Vita Nova Motel, 117 m away · Motels
- Ascot Vale Motor Lodge, 130 m away · Motels
- 298 Westside Motor Lodge, 135 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Field Tce, 154 m away · route 3, route 5, route 86, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Ilam Rd near Kirkwood Ave, 164 m away · route 3, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 133 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 143 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 143 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 380 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 421 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
- Road Signage, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Jun 2024
Road Signage, 5 Mar 2024 Unclear
- Graffiti, 8 Nov 2022
Elsewhere on Balgay Street
- 51 Balgay Street, 19 reports
- 49 Balgay Street, 14 reports
- 11 Balgay Street, 10 reports
- 46 Balgay Street, 8 reports
- 45 Balgay Street, 7 reports
- 43 Balgay Street, 7 reports
- 32 Balgay Street, 7 reports
- 44 Balgay Street, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Balgay Street in 21 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Balgay Street, 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
3 council reports on record since November 2022, most often road signage (1), graffiti (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Balgay Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Milnebank Reserve, 53 m to its edge.

