249 Riccarton Road
5 council reports since April 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 372 Riccarton Road, 21 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, 219 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Paeroa Reserve, 255 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Shand Crescent Reserve, 267 m to the edge
- Harrington Park, 362 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
- Middleton Park, 391 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
- Viv Dairy, 6 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Kebab Bite, 7 m away · Restaurants
- Riccarton Fish and Chips, 11 m away · Fast food
- Big Garys Takeaways Riccarton, 12 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Wharenui Rd near Riccarton Rd, 40 m away · route 80
- Wharenui Rd near Riccarton Rd, 85 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 14 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 63 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 86 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 320 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Jan 2025 Viv dairy, crn riccarton and wharenui road
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 9 Jan 2025 Main entrance shutter to corner dairy, riccarton/wharenui rd
Graffiti somewhere else, 17 Sept 2024 Behind viv dairy
- Graffiti, 25 Nov 2023
Graffiti, 10 Apr 2022 249 Riccarton Rd - Graffiti on top and sides of NZ Post box near corner of Wharenui Rd
Elsewhere on Riccarton Road
- 372 Riccarton Road, 21 reports
- 355C Riccarton Road, 18 reports
- 331A Riccarton Road, 16 reports
- 355 Riccarton Road, 14 reports
- 394 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
- 364 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
- 251 Riccarton Road, 13 reports
- 393 Riccarton Road, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Riccarton Road in 178 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 23 seriously hurt.
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.
Riccarton 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
5 council reports on record since April 2022, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti (2), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Riccarton Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Milnebank Reserve, 219 m to its edge.



