12 Opawa Road
3 council reports since November 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 3 Opawa Road, 19 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
- Thackeray Reserve, 384 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Charleston Reserve, 493 m to the edge · playground, 24 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Ciburb Bar & Grill, 26 m away · Bars & pubs
- Opawa Cafe & Takeaway, 27 m away · Cafés
- Challenge Opawa, 32 m away · Petrol stations
- Rocketnut, 34 m away · Furniture
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 Waltham, 363 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 397 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 413 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 445 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 495 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Waltham ran about $463 a week, $87 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 15 Apr 2025 Graffiti on fence
Water Leak, 1 Dec 2023- Water Leak, 11 Nov 2023
Elsewhere on Opawa Road
- 3 Opawa Road, 19 reports
- 1 Opawa Road, 14 reports
- 56F Opawa Road, 13 reports
- 54 Opawa Road, 11 reports
- 55 Opawa Road, 10 reports
- 25 Opawa Road, 9 reports
- 68 Opawa Road, 8 reports
- 11 Opawa Road, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Opawa Road in 48 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 11 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Opawa Road, the whole record → · Everything about Waltham → · 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
3 council reports on record since November 2023, most often water leak (2), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Waltham, Christchurch, on Opawa Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 384 m to its edge.

