Wainui, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: the flood record drew water over 21% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 6 parks and 1 civic facility, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 75 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 3 September 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 17 February 2026, 8 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

As reported 275 on record

275 photographs
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The suburb, back then 15 in the archive

15 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

3 Sept 2026 General Request328 Wainui Main Road

Why is this shoulder of the road closed? Cones have been here for weeks. What is happening?

2 Sept 2026 PotholeWainui Main Road

pot hole just near Alpaca Farm Tours sign on Wainui Main Rd

18 Aug 2026 Damaged Street Sign24 French Farm Valley Rd

Give way sign broken off

13 Aug 2026 Damaged Road328 Wainui Main Road

Road repairs today. Unsatisfactory, broken already

5 Aug 2026 Fallen Tree158–172 Wainui Main Rd

Tree blocking a lane

3 Aug 2026 Pothole95 Bossu Rd

Potholes developing and soft unsealed verge. This is creating an uneven road surface which can destabilise forklift loads.

31 Jul 2026 Damaged Road330–372 Wainui Main Rd

Pot holes in road. Very dangerous to traffic and pedestrians alike

29 Jul 2026 Roads - General195 Wainui Valley Rd

All these photos are taken on Wainui Valley Rd from the intersection of Donovan’s Rd uphill. These need to be collected and removed. They are serving no…

16 Jul 2026 Pothole20 Cemetery Road

Broken tarseal outside New house on Cemetery Rd. Getting bigger and bigger

6 Jul 2026 General RequestWainui Main Road

The new 5 knot buoy that should be 50m off the Wainui boat ramp, has drifted north to be almost at the other 5 knot buoy. Given it has been drifting it would…

5 Jul 2026 Overgrown Vegetation141 Wainui Valley Rd

There is a difficult to remove foliage obstruction on the left side of road just before the intersection of Wainui Valley Rd and Donovan’s Rd in Wainui.

28 Jun 2026 Damaged Road51 Tikao Bay Road

just past Tikao Bay Rd, towards Wainui on left. Broken road side Busy road

How fast the council fixes things here 771 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Wainui took 2 weeks to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 36 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 4 August 2022.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Schools here

Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Duvauchelle School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 6

• Stanbury Reserve2 ha
• Wainui Domain
• Wainui Main Road Reserve
• Wainui Boat Ramp
• French Farm Reserve
• Wainui Esplanade Reserve

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf 1

• Wainui CemeteryCemetery

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

The names on this ground 28

The flood record drew water over 20.9% of this outline, about 1,956 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

No named slope-hazard band reaches this outline. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 68% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

4 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly explosives and ordinances production, storage and use, 2 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 2 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The council’s structure register stands 10 assets on this ground, 4 boat ramps, 4 jetties, 2 bridges, sited at Wainui, French Farm Bay, Wainui Domain, Jones Bay. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 2 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 2 tennis. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 47 living trees inside this outline, 5 veterans among them, mostly Pohutukawa, Babylon Weeping Willow, Common Alder. The file remembers 13 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 65% of this outline under Rural Banks Peninsula, the rest mostly Papakainga Kainga Nohoanga 2%, Open Space Natural 1%, 68% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, 1 graded highly significant, Dwelling and Setting. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 53% of this outline, about 4,968 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna, wāhi tapu/wāhi taonga, ngā wai. A silent-file precinct covers 31% of it besides, sensitive ground the plan flags without naming the sites. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 1% of this outline, about 99 hectares across 2 scheduled sites, 1% of it Schedule B, identified on private land but not yet protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 68% of this outline, about 6,359 hectares across 22 scheduled areas, 21% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 19% of it sits inside the coastal environment. 2 main ridgelines run through, the skyline itself is protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 185 classified reaches, 2% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 10 m off the bank. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 2 hill density lines hold the high ground low. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 2 photographs on this ground, roading work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 1 inscribed plaque, Wainui Wharf Anchor among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 12 drawn instruments, 10 of them dog rules, 2 camping zones, French Farm Prohibited Area and Wainui Prohibited Area ban camping outright; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Runanga o Onuku and Wairewa Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 2 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.2 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

• Anchorage Baybay
• French Farm Baybay · Te Rautahi
• Lucas Baybay · Whakakuru
• Mat Wight Baybay · Tītoki
• Ōhinepaka Baybay · Ōhinepaka
• Petit Carenage Baybay · Ōpakia
• Te Monenebay
• Tikao Baybay · Tikao
• Titoki / Little Tikao Baybay · Tikao
• Wainui Cemeterycemetery
• Jacobs Laddercrag
• Cape Three Pointsheadland · Ngāmautaurua
• Ohaeheadland
• Ōpukutahiheadland
• Otutereingaheadland

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 24 injury crashes

24 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Wainui's outline, 13 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 75 at Wainui Main Road, 6 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 18 recorded victimisations

18 victimisations on the Police record inside Wainui’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly burglary, about 6 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 300% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

Businesses here 9 in the directory

9 premises in Wainui across 5 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• B&Bs4
• Wineries2
• Attractions1
• Campgrounds1
• Venues & events1

The whole directory →

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Wainui, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Wainui 5 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Wainui with Akaroa · Duvauchelle · Little River · Pigeon Bay · Okains Bay · Le Bons Bay, same record, side by side.

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