3 Lowe Street
4 council reports since September 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 38 Lowe Street, 27 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting, 66H Clarence Street (233m)
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
- Hagley Park South, 226 m to the edge · Sports ground · 71 ha
- Christchurch Railway Station Reserve, 227 m to the edge · Botanic
- Longley Reserve, 435 m to the edge · playground, 51 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- NZ Blood, 165 m away · Blood Donation
- Punky Brewster, 168 m away · Bars & pubs
- Bunnings Warehouse, 175 m away · Hardware
- Animates, 188 m away · Pet shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 183 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 200 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 218 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 245 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Addington Water Tower Ipenz Recognises This Engineering, 230 m away ·
ADDINGTON WATER TOWER IPENZ RECOGNISES THIS ENGINEERING WORK AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF N.Z.’
· 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
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Graffiti somewhere else, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 19 Nov 2025 uneven asphalt on cycle/footpath due to tree roots.
Graffiti somewhere else, 29 Aug 2024- Overgrown Vegetation, 31 Mar 2023
General Request, 9 Sept 2022 Shelters and tents containing homeless people creating a village behind the hospital car park on Deans Ave
Elsewhere on Lowe Street
- 38 Lowe Street, 27 reports
- 36 Lowe Street, 9 reports
- 7A Lowe Street, 8 reports
- 7 Lowe Street, 5 reports
- 28 Lowe Street, 5 reports
- 20–38 Lowe Street, 5 reports
- 18 Lowe Street, 5 reports
- 5 Lowe Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Lowe Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Lowe 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
4 council reports on record since September 2022, most often pavement - damaged (1), overgrown vegetation (1), graffiti somewhere else (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Lowe Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting.
Hagley Park South, 226 m to its edge, 71 ha.