Scoular Place in the Avondale red zone – Named after Peter Gray Scoular (1924-1983). Scoular was chief engineer of the Christchurch City Council during the 1970s through to 1982. The Christchurch Drainage Board owned an area of low-lying land in Avondale which they filled up with dredgings from the river so the land could be subdivided and built on. The Board named the streets formed there and former board and staff members of the Drainage Board were among those honoured in the naming. At the time of naming of the streets it was intended to have 11 streets and cul-de-sacs in the new subdivision. Named on 21 November 1984. First appears in street directories in 1987. Information supplied in 2007 by Paul Baldwin, Christchurch City Council in an interview with Margaret Harper.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I googled Peter Scoular as his name was familiar. One entry I found was about his daughter Robin graduating in 1976 with a bachelor of engineering degree. She was described as the only girl graduating with this degree. I doublechecked the year books from High School and Robin was a year ahead of me which is why the name was familiar.
No longer any houses here and the Avondale Community Garden is on the corner of Mervyn Drive and Scoular Place. There is a walkway that takes you to Gertrude Place.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 