Ogilvie Place in Avondale red zone – Named after Gavin Ogilvie (1930?- 1982). Ogilvie was a senior engineer with the Christchurch Drainage Board before forming Davis Ogilvie & Partners in 1960. 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. With the description for many of the streets in this area of low lying and filled with dredgings from the river no wonder they are now in the red zone.
Going by street view from before the earthquakes it looked like it was a pleasant street with fairly big houses. As a side note the author J M Barrie used the name Gavin Ogilvie when he first started writing.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 