280 Blenheim Road
9 council reports since April 2025, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 260 Blenheim Road, 14 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
- Middleton Park, 267 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
- Harrington Park, 457 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Black Bull Liquor, 8 m away · Bottle stores
- The Riccs, 8 m away · Bars & pubs
- Super Liquor, 21 m away · Bottle stores
- Big Daddy's on Blenheim Road, 37 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 32 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 344 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on fence
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on fence
Traffic Signals, 22 Dec 2025 Button to request pedestrian walk signal to cross Blenheim rd no longer works
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Dec 2025 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Dec 2025 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Dec 2025 Graffiti on wall
Traffic Signals, 5 Dec 2025 Pedestrian crossing seems to be broken, pressing the button does not cause a red pedestrian light to come up on the other side, nor does it
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Apr 2025 More rubbish and abandoned trolleys in Riccs Bar carpark on corner of Blenheim Road and Wharenui Road.
Elsewhere on Blenheim Road
- 260 Blenheim Road, 14 reports
- 401 Blenheim Road, 8 reports
- 447 Blenheim Road, 7 reports
- 367 Blenheim Road, 6 reports
- 241 Blenheim Road, 6 reports
- 5B/251 Blenheim Road, 5 reports
- 400 Blenheim Road, 5 reports
- 382E Blenheim Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Blenheim Road in 96 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 20 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.
Blenheim 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
9 council reports on record since April 2025, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (6), traffic signals (2), dumped rubbish (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Blenheim Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Middleton Park, 267 m to its edge, 5 ha.