485A Ferry Road
4 council reports since June 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 502 Ferry Road, 59 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED substation and setting (179m)
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
- Mary Dixon Park, you are in it
- Woolston Park, 173 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Arran Playground, 359 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
- Christchurch Quay Reserve, 466 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Animal and Bird Hospital, 46 m away · Vets
- Woolston Development Project, 72 m away · Association
- New Yesterdays, 85 m away · Clothing
- Gull Woolston, 86 m away · Petrol stations
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 73 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 90 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 229 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 462 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Woolston ran about $511 a week, $39 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Pollution - Sediment, 14 Dec 2025 The creek needs a good clean out.
Dumped Rubbish, 8 Nov 2025 trolleys and rubbish dumped in creek in small park off Smith St opposite Portstone cafe catpark
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Jun 2025 In drain between Smith St & Ferry rd
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 5 Jun 2025
Elsewhere on Ferry Road
- 502 Ferry Road, 59 reports
- 690 Ferry Road, 43 reports
- 689 Ferry Road, 41 reports
- 564 Ferry Road, 33 reports
- 583 Ferry Road, 32 reports
- 800 Ferry Road, 30 reports
- 608 Ferry Road, 30 reports
- 560 Ferry Road, 30 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ferry Road in 192 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 43 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Linwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Ferry Road, the whole record → · Everything about Woolston → · 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
4 council reports on record since June 2025, most often dumped rubbish (2), water pollution - sediment (1), graffiti on a playground or in a park (1).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Ferry Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED substation and setting.
Mary Dixon Park, the address is inside it.