79 Buckhurst Avenue
2 council reports since July 2023, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 61 Buckhurst Avenue, 4 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting, 69 Corsair Drive (214m)
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
- Fanshaw Reserve, 52 m to the edge
- Bennington 3 Drainage Reserve, 58 m to the edge
- Sir Henry Wigram Reserve, 126 m to the edge
- George West Reserve, 200 m to the edge
- Bennington 2 Drainage Reserve, 216 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
- Kittyhawk Cafe, 320 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Corsair Dr near Gallagher Cl, 101 m away · route 100
- Corsair Dr near Gallaghan Cl, 136 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, 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 1 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 8 Jun 2026 can the lower branches be trimmed. it obscures viewing coming traffic from buckhurst st onto corsair drive. safety issues. thanks
- Water Leak, 5 Jul 2023
Elsewhere on Buckhurst Avenue
- 61 Buckhurst Avenue, 4 reports
- 59 Buckhurst Avenue, 2 reports
- 47 Buckhurst Avenue, 2 reports
- 19 Buckhurst Avenue, 2 reports
- 7 Buckhurst Avenue, 1 report
- 65 Buckhurst Avenue, 1 report
- 43 Buckhurst Avenue, 1 report
- 41 Buckhurst Avenue, 1 report
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.
Buckhurst 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
2 council reports on record since July 2023, most often water leak (1), trees - general (1).
Wigram, Christchurch, on Buckhurst Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting.
Fanshaw Reserve, 52 m to its edge.