21 Ruskin Street
7 council reports since August 2022, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 41 Ruskin Street, 24 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 383 Selwyn Street (245m)
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
- Ruskin Reserve, 101 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Baxters Drain, 166 m to the edge
- Addington Cemetery, 222 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Selwyn Reserve, 227 m to the edge
- Disraeli Reserve, 365 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Everybody's Butchery, 108 m away · Butchers
- Mainland Resene ColorShop, 133 m away · Paint
- Resure, 145 m away · Insurance
- 319 Addington Motel, 196 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Selwyn St near Ruskin St, 129 m away · route 60
- Selwyn St near Fairfield Ave, 155 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 195 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 384 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 392 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 420 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 468 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- The Passionflowers, Reproduced Here From the Addington, 138 m away ·
The passionflowers, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, form part of the Literary
· 2008 - John Ruskin (1819–1900), Was the Pre-Eminent Critic, 138 m away ·
John Ruskin (1819–1900), was the pre-eminent critic of Victorian art and society. His phil
· 2008 - Ruskin Reserve plaque, 138 m away ·
(Decorative passionflower carving – no text)
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Addington ran about $502 a week, $48 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Sept 2026 Rubbish
Overgrown Vegetation, 17 Nov 2025 Both booms at 15 and 21 Ruskin are significantly overgrown potential fire hazard this was CCC responsibility up until a year or so ago as pe
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 1 Mar 2025 Street drain is blocked. Water is backed up and down street, smells terrible and has build up of algae
Water General, 12 Dec 2024 Missing lid. Could be potential trip hazard. Fairly deep hole
Sewer General, 12 Jun 2024 Hi. This drain blocks outside my workplace. It is outside the entrance / exit to Bishop Selwyn.
Poles and Signage - General, 31 Jan 2024 Is it perhaps time to sort out this street sign in Ruskin Street? I have actually reported it before but nothing seemed to happen.
Overgrown Vegetation, 14 Aug 2022 Opposite issue. This berm needs to be planted with something please.
Elsewhere on Ruskin Street
- 41 Ruskin Street, 24 reports
- 44 Ruskin Street, 15 reports
- 71 Ruskin Street, 9 reports
- 69 Ruskin Street, 9 reports
- 60 Ruskin Street, 8 reports
- 55 Ruskin Street, 8 reports
- 18 Ruskin Street, 7 reports
- 61 Ruskin Street, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ruskin Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Ruskin Street, the whole record → · Everything about Addington → · 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
7 council reports on record since August 2022, most often overgrown vegetation (2), water general (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Ruskin Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting.
Ruskin Reserve, 101 m to its edge.