8 Bowen Street
5 council reports since August 2016, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 9 Bowen Street, 12 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
- Siska Reserve, 350 m to the edge
- Auburn Reserve, 359 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Hansons Reserve, 444 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
- Riccarton Clinic, 93 m away · Clinic
- Coriander's Indian Restaurant - Bush Inn, 126 m away · Restaurants
- V-Mart, 128 m away · Supermarkets
- Teasme Specialty Tea Shop - Church Corner, 131 m away · Delis
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waimairi Rd near Bowen St, 89 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Waimairi Rd near Bowen St, 123 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, 92 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 241 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 257 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 497 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, 212 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, 230 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Aug 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 8 Mar 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Feb 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 26 Jan 2024Roading/Streets, 14 Aug 2016
P120 sign and pole have been removed, please replace. Thanks.
Elsewhere on Bowen Street
- 9 Bowen Street, 12 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
- 7 Bowen Street, 2 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
5 council reports on record since August 2016, most often dumped rubbish (4), roading/streets (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Bowen Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Siska Reserve, 350 m to its edge.