3 Waimairi Road
8 council reports since June 2015, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 62A Waimairi Road, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road (75m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road (93m)
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road (176m)
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
- Auburn Reserve, 186 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Hansons Reserve, 285 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Siska Reserve, 488 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
- Westpac, 5 m away · Banks
- Caroline Eve, 20 m away · Clothing
- Canterbury SCL, 26 m away · Laboratory
- Shanghai Street Dumplings, 39 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waimairi Rd near Bowen St, 93 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Church Corner, 123 m away · route 5, route 86, route 100, route 130, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 80 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 85 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 496 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The remembered names nearby
- This Stone Was Laid by Lady Bowen 15th March 1919 Trustees, 58 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY LADY BOWEN 15TH MARCH 1919 TRUSTEES J.E. HANSON, GEO. FORSYTH, T.O.
· 2025 - Subscribers / Please Include Your Name When Returning Books, 73 m away ·
SUBSCRIBERS / PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME WHEN RETURNING BOOKS
· 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 7 on record
What’s on record
- Water Leak, 21 Feb 2026
Water leaking
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 18 Nov 2025 Graffiti on a wall
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 13 Nov 2025 Graffiti on footpath
Graffiti somewhere else, 16 Oct 2024
Water Leak, 12 Jan 2024 Water running out of box flooding garden and path.
Graffiti, 21 Jul 2020Graffiti, 8 Jul 2015
Graffiti, 6 Jun 2015
On west pax building
Elsewhere on Waimairi Road
- 62A Waimairi Road, 20 reports
- 45 Waimairi Road, 17 reports
- 53 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
- 47 Waimairi Road, 16 reports
- 38 Waimairi Road, 11 reports
- 10 Waimairi Road, 10 reports
- 59 Waimairi Road, 8 reports
- 42 Waimairi Road, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waimairi Road in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 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.
Waimairi 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
8 council reports on record since June 2015, most often graffiti (3), water leak (2), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Waimairi Road.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting.
Auburn Reserve, 186 m to its edge, 1 ha.




