3 Main South Road
2 council reports since April 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1C Main South Road, 4 reports on file.
On the register here
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road (85m)
- St Peter's Church & Setting, 24 Main South Road (100m)
- St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting, 24 Main South Road (113m)
- St Peter's Church Lychgate and Setting, 25 Yaldhurst Road (185m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road (249m)
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
- Hansons Reserve, 208 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Auburn Reserve, 365 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 425 m to the edge · Botanic
- Vicki Reserve, 494 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Hillary Reserve, 498 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Unichem, 52 m away · Pharmacies
- Alpine Hotel, 54 m away · Hotels
- Horse and Jockey, 55 m away · Bars & pubs
- Mediterranean Style Souvlaki, 63 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Curletts Rd, 83 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Yaldhurst Rd near Angela St, 105 m away · route 86, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 12 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 198 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 317 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 317 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The remembered names nearby
- Upper Riccarton War Memorial plaque, 197 m away · 2025
- This Stone Was Laid by Lady Bowen 15th March 1919 Trustees, 199 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY LADY BOWEN 15TH MARCH 1919 TRUSTEES J.E. HANSON, GEO. FORSYTH, T. C
· 2025
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 4 Feb 2026 large and very old shopping trolley. branding worn off.
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Apr 2025
Elsewhere on Main South Road
- 1C Main South Road, 4 reports
- 1 Main South Road, 4 reports
- 7 Main South Road, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main South Road in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.
Main South 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
2 council reports on record since April 2025, most often dumped rubbish (2).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, St Peter's Church & Setting.
Hansons Reserve, 208 m to its edge.