5 Karamu Street
11 council reports since July 2017, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Karamu Street, 26 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
- Milnebank Reserve, 7 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Auburn Reserve, 382 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Middleton Park, 396 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Classic Motel & Apartments, 89 m away · Motels
- Apollo Motel, 122 m away · Motels
- Vita Nova Motel, 137 m away · Motels
- TCM Chinese Medical Centre, 152 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, 117 m away · route 3, route 5, route 86, route 130, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Riccarton Rd near Balgay St, 125 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, 119 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 133 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 211 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 299 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 340 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
- Dumped Rubbish, 8
- Roading/Streets, 2
- Parks, 1
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 7 Oct 2026 Rubbish dumped
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Jul 2026 dumped carpet
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Apr 2026
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Dec 2025 Rubbish dumped in public walkway from Karamu st to Milne bank park
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Nov 2025 3 x dumped couches
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Apr 2025 Branches and lots of tree rubbish needs to be removed as it is on a corner taking up ?up road space taking up
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Mar 2025- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Dec 2022
Roading/Streets, 31 Jan 2020
house is empty signage attached to post
- Roading/Streets, 31 Jul 2019
plenty of borrowed road signs and road cones on property
Parks, 14 Jul 2017
Green waste to be collected by entrance to milnebank reserve
Elsewhere on Karamu Street
- 2 Karamu Street, 26 reports
- 24 Karamu Street, 18 reports
- 22A Karamu Street, 17 reports
- 8A Karamu Street, 16 reports
- 3 Karamu Street, 14 reports
- 20 Karamu Street, 10 reports
- 10 Karamu Street, 6 reports
- 8 Karamu Street, 5 reports
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.
Karamu Street, 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
11 council reports on record since July 2017, most often dumped rubbish (8), roading/streets (2), parks (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Karamu Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Milnebank Reserve, 7 m to its edge.