22 Ruskin Street

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, 85 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
• Baxters Drain, 160 m to the edge
• Selwyn Reserve, 224 m to the edge
• Addington Cemetery, 238 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
• Disraeli Reserve, 381 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, 130 m away · Butchers
• Mainland Resene ColorShop, 154 m away · Paint
• Resure, 167 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, 136 m away · route 60
• Brougham St near Somerset Cres, 169 m away · route 120

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Addington, 218 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 367 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 410 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 414 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Addington, 485 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• The Passionflowers, Reproduced Here From the Addington, 122 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, 122 m away · John Ruskin (1819–1900), was the pre-eminent critic of Victorian art and society. His phil · 2008
• Ruskin Reserve plaque, 122 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

• Rubbish and Bins - General, 2
• Dumped Rubbish, 2
• Roads - General, 1

Photographed here 5 on record

more photographs
on the Addington wall →

What’s on record

• Dumped Rubbish, 27 Nov 2025 Armchair dumped in trees on side of Ruskin St near the community pantry
• Dumped Rubbish, 6 Aug 2025 Beside the Ruskin community pantry
• Roads - General, 27 Jul 2024 Yellow no parking lines required around access to aged care facility as cars park too close, causing limited view for vehicles exiting. A nu
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 12 Jun 2024 Please can you repair the green lid on our rubbish bin.
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 12 Jun 2024 The lid is broken on this red bin. Please may we get a new lid.

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
• 21 Ruskin Street, 7 reports
• 18 Ruskin Street, 7 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 crashes it names, each one →

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.