401 Blenheim Road
8 council reports since April 2022, 7 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
- Hillary Reserve, 297 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
- Jaycar, 45 m away · Electronics
- The Pawn Shop, 82 m away · Pawnbroker
- Westmeat, 90 m away · Butchers
- Steel & Tube - Stainless Steel, 91 m away · Wholesale
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, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 99 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 172 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 174 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 204 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Road, 14 Aug 2025 Fix from February has failed. Road is crumbling
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 2 Apr 2025
Pothole, 16 Nov 2024 Pothole forming around service lid
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Nov 2024 Significant damage to pavement and water pooling in kerb channel
Pavement - General, 2 Nov 2024 Wooden retaining wall falling and flowing into narrow footpath
Pavement - Damaged, 21 Sept 2024 Wood edging of grass/footpath is broken and obstructing the path and has exposed nails.
- Accessibility, 29 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 17 Apr 2022 401 Blenheim Rd - Graffiti on utility box
Elsewhere on Blenheim Road
- 260 Blenheim Road, 14 reports
- 280 Blenheim Road, 9 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
8 council reports on record since April 2022, most often pavement - damaged (2), pothole (1), pavement - general (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Blenheim Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hillary Reserve, 297 m to its edge.






