79R Corsair Drive
3 council reports since December 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 8 Corsair Drive, 12 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting, 69 Corsair Drive (151m)
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting, 95 Sioux Avenue (207m)
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, you are in it
- Bennington 3 Drainage Reserve, 37 m to the edge
- Sir Henry Wigram Reserve, 66 m to the edge
- George West Reserve, 214 m to the edge
- Bennington 2 Drainage Reserve, 220 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, 348 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, 55 m away · route 100
- Corsair Dr near Gallaghan Cl, 79 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 18 Feb 2025 Goes everywhere in the reserve at 79 Corsair drive
Dumped Rubbish, 7 Jan 2025 All kinds of dumped rubbish at this nice little park. :(
Abandoned Vehicle, 29 Dec 2024 This car has been here unused for months
Elsewhere on Corsair Drive
- 8 Corsair Drive, 12 reports
- 71 Corsair Drive, 10 reports
- 10 Corsair Drive, 9 reports
- 60 Corsair Drive, 7 reports
- 22 Corsair Drive, 5 reports
- 2 Corsair Drive, 5 reports
- 97-99 Corsair Drive, 3 reports
- 95 Corsair Drive, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Corsair Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Corsair Drive, 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
3 council reports on record since December 2024, most often park - general request (1), dumped rubbish (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Wigram, Christchurch, on Corsair Drive.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former RNZAF Station Wigram Instructional Building/Control Tower and Setting, Former RNZAF Station Wigram Hangar 4 and Setting.
Fanshaw Reserve, the address is inside it.