Yaldhurst, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 0% of it; the 2011 grading filed it mostly TC1, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 school, 9 parks, 1 place of worship and 2 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 224 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 7 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 14 January 2025, 28 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Yaldhurst is a semi-rural suburb on the western outskirts of Christchurch city. Frederick William Delamain (1835–1910), a settler and horse breeder, named a horse Yaldhurst after some stables in England. The area was named after the horse.

As reported 1,059 on record

1,059 photographs
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The suburb, back then 3 in the archive

3 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

7 Oct 2026 Dumped Rubbish7 Apple Orchard Ln

Dumped rubbish

7 Oct 2026 Dumped Rubbish96 Rannoch Dr

Dumped rubbish.

6 Oct 2026 Abandoned Vehicle1 Little Oaks Drive

I did report this car being no wof, and expired rego few months ago. it's still sitting there. which starting to piss us locally off who live around there. I…

5 Oct 2026 Facility - General Request62 School Road

no padlock on access

3 Oct 2026 Dumped Rubbish231–239 Buchanans Rd

Fly tipping

30 Sept 2026 Park - General Request62 School Rd

Someone has vandalised the cricket block at Yaldhurst Domain. I walk my dog here frequently, and have seen how much work went into it since April. Happy to…

30 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish66 Ryans Road

dumped tyres in the water race and much other rubbish

28 Sept 2026 Road Signage24 George Bellew Road

Incorrect spelling of road name. correct spelling is George Bellew Rd.

25 Sept 2026 Litter211 Ryans Rd

Rubbish in the stream impacting local wildlife

25 Sept 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water27 Ferdinand Tce

River is partially blocked under the walk bridge

22 Sept 2026 Roads - General1 Savills Rd

Shingle all over the middle of this intersection. It’s very dangerous to drive over as it makes your car loose traction. Also Outside Harewood Gravels…

22 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish20 Grays Rd

Dumped rubbish

How fast the council fixes things here 2,410 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Yaldhurst took 4 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 85 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 4 July 2021.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Alcohol rules on this ground

2 sensitive sites stand here, Gilberthorpe School, Yaldhurst Model School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of them.

The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.

Schools here 1

• Yaldhurst School – Tōtara TūkahaFull Primary · decile 5 · EQI 432

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hornby High School · Middleton Grange School · St Bernadette's School (Hornby) · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Puna Wai o Waipapa - Hagley College · and 5 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.

The green here 9

• Yaldhurst Bush6 ha
• F W Delamain ParkSports ground · 4 ha · playground, 48 pieces
• Little Oaks Reserve2 ha
• Yaldhurst DomainSports ground · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
• Champagne Reserve1 ha · playground, 26 pieces
• Philippe Avenue Reserve1 ha
• Cognac Drive Reserve
• Ferdinand Terrace Reserve

The first eight of 9, Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

Where the suburb worships 1

• St Luke'san Anglican church

Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.

The ground that moved

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.0% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The 2011 grading filed 1.3% of this outline, about 23 hectares, mostly TC1. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.

3 parcels inside this outline sit on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, explosives and ordinances production, storage and use, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 77 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 38 hectares, mostly silt, engineered fill, compacted hardfill. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 58% of this outline in the "unlikely" class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 24 assets on this ground, 11 bridges, 8 sets of steps, 3 jetties, 2 viewing platforms, sited at Philippe Avenue Reserve, Yaldhurst Hall, Little Oaks Reserve, Yaldhurst Bush. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 5 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 3 tennis, 1 basketball, 1 cricket. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 1,493 living trees inside this outline, 29 carrying a protection, mostly Red maple, Whitebarked Himalayen Birch, Silver Birch. The file remembers 219 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 55% of this outline under Rural Urban Fringe, the rest mostly Rural Waimakariri 30%, Specific Purpose (Airport) 6%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan reserves about 356 hectares of this outline, 20%, under 7 designations, mostly movement, learning. A designation is a claim on the ground, not a build date, the mix is read from a sampled join; the whole register is drawn at /designations.

The plan’s exceptions touch 1% of this outline, 2 qualifying matters, mostly utilities. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 2 places by name in this suburb, 1 graded highly significant, Dwelling and Setting, Former Tiptree Farm, Dwelling and Setting, Dudley House. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 2% of this outline, about 42 hectares across 1 scheduled site, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 15% of this outline, about 272 hectares across 1 scheduled area. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s noise overlays cover all of this outline, about 1,802 hectares across 10 mapped overlays, 83% of it inside the airport’s air-noise contours, where the 55 dB line bites, and inside the airport’s bird-strike buffer. Shares read from a sampled join; a planning line, not a meter’s reading. The quiet lines are drawn at /noise.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 17 classified reaches, the plan calling Paparua Stream and Paparua Stream Branch No 3 by name. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 1% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Medium Density. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 228 photographs on this ground, 2012–2013, wastewater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 0.4 km of cycleway crosses the outline. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 1 inscribed plaque, Yaldhurst Hall among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 2 drawn instruments, 2 bottle-store buffers; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 5 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.4 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

The crash record 147 injury crashes

147 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Yaldhurst's outline, 7 people killed, 33 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: State Highway 73 at Hasketts Road, 12 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 779 recorded victimisations

779 victimisations on the Police record inside Yaldhurst’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 83 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 20% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 2 stops

2 Metro stops inside Yaldhurst's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 86.

• Yaldhurst near SH-73
• Yaldhurst near SH-73

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 27 in the directory

27 premises in Yaldhurst across 19 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• Restaurants4
• Attractions2
• Cafés2
• Hotels2
• Petrol stations2
• Venues & events2
• Agrarian1
• B&Bs1
• Bars & pubs1
• Bottle stores1
• Company1
• Dairies & convenience1
• Dentists1
• Fast food1
• Garden centres1
• Joiner1
• Laundromats1
• Museums1
• Pharmacies1

Among them, the ones the record says most about:

• CLAAS Harvest Centre ChristchurchAgrarian
• Sockburn JoineryJoiner
• St Pierre's SushiRestaurants
• Canterbury Linen ServicesLaundromats
• Yaldhurst HotelHotels

The whole directory →

On the register here

1. Dwelling and Setting, Dudley House

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Yaldhurst, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Yaldhurst 5 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Yaldhurst with Broomfield · Russley · Hei Hei · Islington · Avonhead · Christchurch Airport, same record, side by side.

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