884 Avonside Drive
12 council reports since August 2018, 10 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 875 Avonside Drive, 35 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
- Bickerton Reserve, you are in it
- Porritt Park, 51 m to the edge · Sports ground · 11 ha
- Cuffs Road Playground, 261 m to the edge · playground, 15 pieces
- Avon Park, 392 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Avon Riverbank True Left, 409 m to the edge · 6 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Wainoni Dairy, 157 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Rossco's Lunch Box, 161 m away · Cafés
- Souvlaki & Pacific Takeaways, 161 m away · Fast food
- Wainoni Mini Mart, 165 m away · Dairies & convenience
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 Wainoni, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Wainoni, 70 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Wainoni, 155 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Wainoni, 290 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Wainoni, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Bickerton Reserve plaque, 75 m away ·
(three plaques set in paving – text largely illegible at this distance)
· 2012 - Bickerton Reserve plaque, 75 m away ·
(same group of three plaques – text largely illegible at this distance)
· 2012 - Professor Alexander William Bickerton, 75 m away ·
PROFESSOR ALEXANDER WILLIAM BICKERTON / (biographical text illegible at this resolution)
· 2012
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Wainoni ran about $540 a week, $10 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 10 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 26 May 2026 The graffiti on the signal pole
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 May 2026 Antisemitic hate speech graffiti on fence stopping traffic driving down Avonside Dr on the corner of wainoni Dr and Avonside Dr
Animal - Deceased, 28 Apr 2026 a large dead animal..I think a dog has been left in the long grass by the fig tree
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 22 Feb 2025 Graffiti where the river & a culvert sort of bridge into the old Porritt Park by foot. Opposite the old demolished church. Alongside the wal
Overgrown Vegetation, 3 Mar 2024 Hi this part of Avonside Drive by Porritt Park has been overgrown for too long and a fire hazard. Finally it was mowed but the there big and
- Graffiti, 30 Sept 2023
- Damaged Road, 24 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 14 Jan 2022Parks, 6 Dec 2021
fallen tree
Graffiti, 1 Aug 2018
Graffiti, 1 Aug 2018
Graffiti, 1 Aug 2018
Elsewhere on Avonside Drive
- 875 Avonside Drive, 35 reports
- 841 Avonside Drive, 21 reports
- 875D Avonside Drive, 19 reports
- 878 Avonside Drive, 14 reports
- 845 Avonside Drive, 13 reports
- 839 Avonside Drive, 10 reports
- 839-841 Avonside Drive, 9 reports
- 875C Avonside Drive, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Avonside Drive in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Linwood 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.
Avonside Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Wainoni → · 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
12 council reports on record since August 2018, most often graffiti (5), parks (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Wainoni, Christchurch, on Avonside Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bickerton Reserve, the address is inside it.





