72 Wharenui Road
3 council reports since January 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 110 Wharenui Road, 18 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
- Middleton Park, 196 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 5 pieces
- Harrington Park, 232 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 54 pieces
- Paeroa Reserve, 388 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Halo Venue, 12 m away · Venues & events
- Three Elements Chinese Restaurant, 132 m away · Restaurants
- Harrington Park Dairy, 257 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Black Bull Liquor, 279 m away · Bottle stores
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, 310 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 314 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 388 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 465 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 12 Sept 2026 Blocked drains
Hazard, vehicle, 29 Aug 2026 Car keeps parking too close to drive way, can’t safely exit
- Graffiti, 8 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Wharenui Road
- 110 Wharenui Road, 18 reports
- 90 Wharenui Road, 14 reports
- 84 Wharenui Road, 12 reports
- 31 Wharenui Road, 11 reports
- 30 Wharenui Road, 10 reports
- 18 Wharenui Road, 10 reports
- 82 Wharenui Road, 9 reports
- 2 Wharenui Road, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wharenui Road in 36 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 9 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.
Wharenui 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
3 council reports on record since January 2023, most often street gutters / storm water (1), hazard, vehicle (1), graffiti (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Wharenui Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Middleton Park, 196 m to its edge, 5 ha.

