272 Riccarton Road
3 council reports since March 2023, 2 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, 103 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Middleton Park, 298 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
- Auburn Reserve, 404 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Paeroa Reserve, 441 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Shand Crescent Reserve, 470 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Ear Health Riccarton, 34 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Christchurch Classic Motel & Apartments, 67 m away · Motels
- Nomads Ethnic Foods, 104 m away · Restaurants
- TCM Chinese Medical Centre, 110 m away · Alternative
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Balgay St, 21 m away · route 3, route 5, route 86, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Riccarton Rd near Balgay St, 61 m away · route 3, route 5, route 86, route 130, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 4 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 116 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 217 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 266 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 268 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti somewhere else, 6 Apr 2024 272A Riccarton Rd - green utility box
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Dec 2023- Pavement - Damaged, 23 Mar 2023
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
3 council reports on record since March 2023, most often pavement - damaged (1), graffiti somewhere else (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Riccarton Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Milnebank Reserve, 103 m to its edge.

