38 The Runway
11 council reports since April 2020, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 26 The Runway, 42 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
- Te Kahu Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Raukura Park, 244 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Kahurangi 3 Drainage Reserve, 311 m to the edge · 5 ha
- George West Reserve, 340 m to the edge
- Bennington 3 Drainage Reserve, 408 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- The Runway near Kittyhawk Ave, 108 m away · route 100
- The Runway near Kittyhawk Ave, 127 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Wigram, 498 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
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Apr 2026
damaged pedestrian arm/side thing
Park - General Request, 9 May 2025 Bark levels are getting very low. Hard for small children to get in and out. Seems to be a drainage issue in one corner following heavy rain
Overgrown Vegetation, 21 Jan 2025 Need weeding or weed spraying in playground. A lot of areas are becoming very overgrown in Wigram and becoming unusable by the public. Would
Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Jan 2025
Overgrown Vegetation, 28 Sept 2024 Te Kahu Park Playground needs vegetation and weeds tidied up, the bark around swings needs to be refilled/moved about, and general Tidy up.
Overgrown Vegetation, 29 Feb 2024 Hey :) just a request to please cut back the grasses around the paths and stumps leading up to the slide platform. They're so long that you
- Playground Equipment, 1 Sept 2023
- Trees - General, 8 Aug 2023
- Graffiti, 13 Oct 2022
Park - General Request, 31 Jul 2022 Hoping the photos show - but there is a lot of broken glass by the slide and picnic tables at the playground
Roading/Streets, 16 Apr 2020 Hi, on the road as indicated a mean pothole where we on our pushbike riding. Got a near miss as a car had to brake while I tried to avoid th
Elsewhere on The Runway
- 26 The Runway, 42 reports
- 36 The Runway, 13 reports
- 104 The Runway, 9 reports
- 5 The Runway, 8 reports
- 90 The Runway, 7 reports
- 120R The Runway, 5 reports
- 118 The Runway, 5 reports
- 117 The Runway, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names The Runway in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
The Runway, 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
11 council reports on record since April 2020, most often overgrown vegetation (4), park - general request (2), trees - general (1).
Wigram, Christchurch, on The Runway.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Te Kahu Park, the address is inside it, 4 ha.