2 Longspur Avenue
7 council reports since December 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 18 Longspur Avenue, 15 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
- Broken Run Reserve, you are in it · 3 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Wigram Road Landscape Reserve, 132 m to the edge
- Nash Reserve, 250 m to the edge · 9 ha
- Somerville Corridor Reserve, 251 m to the edge
- Somerville Reserve, 433 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Zhu Badminton Centre, 372 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Wigram, 216 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; 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.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Wigram ran about $697 a week, $147 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti, 3
- Playground Equipment, 2
- Park - General Request, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Playground Equipment, 27 Jan 2026 health and safety issue. I have asked before and no action. this playground needs the bark replaced or at least a good layer of playground
Playground Equipment, 24 Oct 2025 The bark needs replacing. As youcan see from the photos the wind has blown off the thin layer of bark and left compacted bark dust. This de
Facility - General Request, 18 Aug 2025 Tennis net at Broken Run playground needs fixing please.
Park - General Request, 1 Apr 2025 2 health and safety issues. The bark doesn't meet health and safety requirements. It would be good to have a bench seat by the playground
- Graffiti, 20 May 2023
- Graffiti, 20 May 2023
Graffiti, 8 Dec 2019
on fence in east side of broken run reserve
Elsewhere on Longspur Avenue
- 18 Longspur Avenue, 15 reports
- 16 Longspur Avenue, 11 reports
- 1 Longspur Avenue, 6 reports
- 22 Longspur Avenue, 5 reports
- 9 Longspur Avenue, 4 reports
- 6 Longspur Avenue, 4 reports
- 20 Longspur Avenue, 4 reports
- 12 Longspur Avenue, 4 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell 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.
Longspur Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Wigram → · 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
7 council reports on record since December 2019, most often graffiti (3), playground equipment (2), park - general request (1).
Wigram, Christchurch, on Longspur Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Broken Run Reserve, the address is inside it, 3 ha.