32 Dickens Street
9 council reports since November 2023, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 26 Dickens Street, 18 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, 15/336 Lincoln Road (100m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting (244m)
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
- Mountfort Park, 21 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cornelius O'connor Reserve, 295 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Addington Park, 408 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Hagley Park South, 413 m to the edge · Sports ground · 71 ha
- Walsall Reserve, 433 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
- Jailhouse Accommodation, 67 m away · Hostels
- Young Sing Takeaway, 127 m away · Fast food
- Burger King, 138 m away · Fast food
- Citywide Florist, 140 m away · Business
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, 158 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 198 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 244 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 285 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
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) Was One of the Most Popular, 31 m away ·
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870) was one of the most popular English novelists of the Victori
· 2013
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 8 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 16 Dec 2025 Tagged bensh
Dumped Rubbish, 2 Jul 2025 Park needs a rubbish bin
Dumped Rubbish, 31 Jan 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 11 Oct 2024
Park - General Request, 30 Aug 2024 Broken bike left here in park
Dumped Rubbish, 25 Jun 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 25 Jun 2024 Hi in park off Dickens st next to old Addington prison
Dumped Rubbish, 14 Apr 2024- Dumped Rubbish, 27 Nov 2023
Elsewhere on Dickens Street
- 26 Dickens Street, 18 reports
- 28 Dickens Street, 17 reports
- 44 Dickens Street, 9 reports
- 23 Dickens Street, 8 reports
- 48 Dickens Street, 7 reports
- 48A Dickens Street, 6 reports
- 22 Dickens Street, 6 reports
- 21A Dickens Street, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Dickens Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Dickens 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
9 council reports on record since November 2023, most often dumped rubbish (7), park - general request (1), graffiti on a playground or in a park (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Dickens Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting.
Mountfort Park, 21 m to its edge.







