7 Bowen Street
2 council reports since May 2019, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 9 Bowen Street, 12 reports on file.
On the register here
- Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, 350 Riccarton Road (226m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, 355B Riccarton Road (246m)
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, 332 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Siska Reserve, 366 m to the edge
- Hansons Reserve, 422 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Coriander's Indian Restaurant - Bush Inn, 101 m away · Restaurants
- Riccarton Clinic, 102 m away · Clinic
- Teasme Specialty Tea Shop - Church Corner, 106 m away · Delis
- V-Mart, 107 m away · Supermarkets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waimairi Rd near Bowen St, 69 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Waimairi Rd near Bowen St, 99 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 220 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 232 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, 189 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY LADY BOWEN 15TH MARCH 1919 TRUSTEES J.E. HANSON, GEO. FORSYTH, T. C
· 2025 - Upper Riccarton War Memorial plaque, 207 m away · 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
Roading/Streets, 5 Feb 2020
hanging cable
Wastewater/Stormwater, 14 May 2019
heavily blocked storm drain. Blocked with leaves and general dirt. Ecan attended for another incident and noted drain blockage when lifting
Elsewhere on Bowen Street
- 9 Bowen Street, 12 reports
- 8 Bowen Street, 5 reports
- 28 Bowen Street, 4 reports
- 15 Bowen Street, 4 reports
- 33 Bowen Street, 3 reports
- 25 Bowen Street, 3 reports
- 13 Bowen Street, 3 reports
- 38 Bowen Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bowen Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Bowen 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
2 council reports on record since May 2019, most often wastewater/stormwater (1), roading/streets (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Bowen Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Bush Inn Hotel and Setting, Commercial Building and Setting.
Auburn Reserve, 332 m to its edge, 1 ha.