50 Auburn Avenue
6 council reports since May 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 28 Auburn Avenue, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road (76m)
- Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road (81m)
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road (232m)
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, 49 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Hansons Reserve, 200 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Middleton Park, 499 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
- Orange House Restaurant and Takeaway, 24 m away · Restaurants
- Orange House Restaurant & Takeaways, 32 m away · Restaurants
- Matthews, 40 m away · Optometrists
- Unity Property Management, 40 m away · Company
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Riccarton Rd near Newnham Tce, 112 m away · route 5, route 86, route 100, route 130, the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Church Corner, 170 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, 51 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 87 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 413 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 415 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The remembered names nearby
- Subscribers / Please Include Your Name When Returning Books, 136 m away ·
SUBSCRIBERS / PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR NAME WHEN RETURNING BOOKS
· 2025 - This Stone Was Laid by Lady Bowen 15th March 1919 Trustees, 146 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY LADY BOWEN 15TH MARCH 1919 TRUSTEES J.E. HANSON, GEO. FORSYTH, T.O.
· 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 21 May 2024 This area of Auburn Avenue, has been flooding since my last report back 2021. PLEASE can this be sorted, as pedestrians can not cross this r
Pavement - Damaged, 19 Apr 2024 The new build across the road has had trucks damage guttering.
- Pavement - Damaged, 12 Sept 2023
Roading/Streets, 28 Feb 2020
not sure if its council issue or landlord I have to duck under this tree. and I'm not very tall 152 cm.
Roading/Streets, 7 Oct 2019
blocking foot path when there is room on front lawn and driveway
Roading/Streets, 11 May 2019
no street lights on in Auburn AVE and tiora place,
Elsewhere on Auburn Avenue
- 28 Auburn Avenue, 37 reports
- 24 Auburn Avenue, 32 reports
- 1 Auburn Avenue, 27 reports
- 55 Auburn Avenue, 15 reports
- 34 Auburn Avenue, 13 reports
- 42 Auburn Avenue, 11 reports
- 31 Auburn Avenue, 11 reports
- 46 Auburn Avenue, 10 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Auburn Avenue in 14 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.
Auburn Avenue, 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
6 council reports on record since May 2019, most often roading/streets (3), pavement - damaged (2), roads - general (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Auburn Avenue.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Bush Inn Hotel and Setting.
Auburn Reserve, 49 m to its edge, 1 ha.

