45 Harvard Avenue
5 council reports since June 2018, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Harvard Avenue.
On the register here
- Former Canterbury Aviation Company Barracks and Setting (140m)
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting, 14 Henry Wigram Drive (181m)
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
- Wigram Village Green, 47 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Sir Henry Wigram Reserve, 362 m to the edge
- Caudron Reserve, 399 m to the edge
- Vickerys Reserve, 424 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Fanshaw Reserve, 444 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
- Air Force Museum of New Zealand, 51 m away · Attractions
- Cafe at Air Force Museum, 55 m away · Cafés
- Te Whakairinga Mutu / Air Force Museum, 56 m away · Museums
- Contact Café, 66 m away · Cafés
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 named ground
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 5 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 16 Nov 2025 Drain badly blocked causing road to flood. Tried to clear but beyond me. Needs to be cleared by council. Have seen water across the road not
Hazard, vehicle, 10 Nov 2024 Parked in a disabled spot with no badge displayed
Damaged Street Light, 10 Nov 2024 Luminarie missing on the street lamp pole
Street Light Outage, 23 Jun 2024 Street light not working
Flooding, 6 Jun 2018
This happening very regularly and does seem to require a large amount of rainfall to cause the flooding now.
Elsewhere on Harvard Avenue
- 14 Harvard Avenue, 3 reports
- 36 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 28 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 25 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 20 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 2 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 15 Harvard Avenue, 2 reports
- 6 Harvard Avenue, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Harvard Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Harvard 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
5 council reports on record since June 2018, most often street light outage (1), street gutters / storm water (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Wigram, Christchurch, on Harvard Avenue.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former Canterbury Aviation Company Barracks and Setting, Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting.
Wigram Village Green, 47 m to its edge, 4 ha.