8A Roche Avenue
2 council reports since December 2022, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 28 Roche Avenue, 11 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Strone, 75 Hansons Lane (178m)
- Former Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House, 71 Suva Street (199m)
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
- Hillary Reserve, 116 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Hansons Reserve, 216 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 429 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Auburn Reserve, 487 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- La Vida Centre, 221 m away · Venues & events
- Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China, 230 m away · Diplomatic
- Rannerdale War Vets Home, 232 m away · Hospital
- Award Appliances Seconds Store, 288 m away · Clothing
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, 98 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 240 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 323 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Upper Riccarton, 377 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.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Road Blockage, 17 Dec 2025 Flooding across the homer and Roche intersection blocking access to to residence on homer Place
- Dumped Rubbish, 20 Dec 2022
Elsewhere on Roche Avenue
- 28 Roche Avenue, 11 reports
- 30B Roche Avenue, 5 reports
- 30A Roche Avenue, 5 reports
- 4 Roche Avenue, 4 reports
- 36 Roche Avenue, 4 reports
- 2 Roche Avenue, 3 reports
- 8 Roche Avenue, 2 reports
- 5-7 Roche Avenue, 2 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.
Roche 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
2 council reports on record since December 2022, most often road blockage (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, on Roche Avenue.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Strone, Former Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House.
Hillary Reserve, 116 m to its edge.