489A Ferry Road
4 council reports since February 2024, 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 (148m)
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, 142 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Arran Playground, 347 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
- Christchurch Quay Reserve, 430 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
- Woolston Development Project, 49 m away · Association
- Animal and Bird Hospital, 64 m away · Vets
- Gull Woolston, 98 m away · Petrol stations
- New Yesterdays, 118 m away · Clothing
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, 74 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 123 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 197 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 427 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 466 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
- Park - General Request, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Oct 2025 Trolly full of rubbish dumped onto the water, bushes full of rubbish too. Appears someone has been living in the bushes.
Facility - General Request, 10 Oct 2025 Have posted before and nothing was done. Hope this is the right place to post it this time. Broken fence, neighboring dog comes through and
Park - General Request, 15 Aug 2024 Fence between old Kimihia Parents College site and Mary Dixon Park needs hole fixed as our OSCAR programme kids keep wanting to sneak throug
Graffiti, 18 Feb 2024 Tagging on the park fence.
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 February 2024, most often park - general request (1), graffiti (1), facility - general request (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.