7 Ballance Street
6 council reports since February 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 10A Ballance Street, 10 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Broad Park, you are in it · 2 ha · playground, 109 pieces
- Waimairi Beach Park, 73 m to the edge · Regional · 61 ha
- Aston Reserve, 272 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Beach Cafe & Wine Bar, 246 m away · Cafés
- Jungle Cafe, 246 m away · Cafés
- Brighton Beach House, 255 m away · Cafés
- At The Beach Bed & Breakfast, 266 m away · B&Bs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Aston Dr near Ballance St, 145 m away · route 80
- Aston Dr near Orlando Cres, 183 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Waimairi Beach, 6 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
- Overgrown Vegetation, 3
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1
- Parks, 1
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Litter, 24 Feb 2025 Some things left in the park area from a wedding on 22nd (as per the sign).
Overgrown Vegetation, 30 Nov 2024 Large split tree with broken branches that may fall over a path.
Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Jun 2024 Ignore the house address. The location is in the council Park At the North end of broad Park, this bush has become very overgrown. Is about
- Overgrown Vegetation, 12 Nov 2023
Rubbish/Recycling, 13 Feb 2022 Overflowing bin needs emptied
Parks, 18 Feb 2021 This real estate sign, advertising an agent rather than a property, has been placed in Broad Park. I'm not sure if this is illegal, but it i
Elsewhere on Ballance Street
- 10A Ballance Street, 10 reports
- 8 Ballance Street, 3 reports
- 10 Ballance Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ballance Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Coastal ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Ballance Street, the whole record → · Everything about Waimairi Beach → · 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 February 2021, most often overgrown vegetation (3), rubbish/recycling (1), parks (1).
Waimairi Beach, Christchurch, on Ballance Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Broad Park, the address is inside it, 2 ha.




