275 Riccarton 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

• Milnebank Reserve, 116 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
• Middleton Park, 295 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
• Paeroa Reserve, 413 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
• Auburn Reserve, 427 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
• Shand Crescent Reserve, 445 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, 33 m away · Doctors & clinics
• Nomads Ethnic Foods, 75 m away · Restaurants
• Christchurch Classic Motel & Apartments, 96 m away · Motels
• TCM Chinese Medical Centre, 131 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, 49 m away · route 3, route 5, route 86, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
• Riccarton Rd near Balgay St, 85 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, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 142 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 192 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 241 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 253 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

What gets reported here

• Dumped Rubbish, 3
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Parks, 1
• Graffiti, 1
• Abandoned Vehicle, 1

Photographed here 4 on record

more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

What’s on record

• Dumped Rubbish, 7 Jun 2026 seat white cot ends
• Dumped Rubbish, 31 Dec 2025 2 bags of dirty nappies dumped on grass berm for the past week
• Dumped Rubbish, 10 May 2025
• Abandoned Vehicle, 5 Oct 2023
• Graffiti, 8 Jan 2023
• Parks, 12 Jan 2020 265 Riccarton Rd Just inside frontage fenceline dead and fire risk vegetation up to 1.5m high. A fire risk to humans and all the mature hist
• Roading/Streets, 14 Sept 2018 Parking unit to Darryl . Cars for sale opposite Kirkwood intermediate. Take spaces for parents picking up and dropping off. Trailer has been

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 crashes it names, each one →

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.