44 Dickens Street
9 council reports since December 2016, 9 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 (169m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting (173m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Belltower and Setting (180m)
- Church Square and Setting, 21A Church Square (181m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting, 21A Church Square (200m)
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, 74 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cornelius O'connor Reserve, 247 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Addington Park, 422 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Jerrold Reserve, 429 m to the edge
- Addington Cemetery, 490 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
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, 131 m away · Hostels
- Young Sing Takeaway, 199 m away · Fast food
- Burger King, 202 m away · Fast food
- Citywide Florist, 215 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, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 169 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 171 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 231 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 281 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, 90 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 9 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 16 Aug 2026 Dumped mattress
Dumped Rubbish, 19 May 2025 A fridge has been dumped out the front of 42 Dickens street. I have asked the tenants and they have all said it is not there’s and appeared
Roading/Streets, 5 Mar 2021 Men@Work STMS have just placed 50KMH signs in our street when the speed limit is 40KMH! Clearly the planner didnt check this before sending
Roading/Streets, 18 Aug 2019
Whom do we call in the weekends when dickhead park stupidly? Or is parking not enforced on weekends? Brown Nissan LEC403
Rubbish/Recycling, 23 Jul 2019
WTF? Red bin still full after truck has been? And NO, the rubbish is not tightly packed!
Roading/Streets, 16 May 2019
new neighbours across the road are using some no stopping road cones to reserve parking spaces for their daytime visitors. they put them up
Roading/Streets, 15 Feb 2019
Hello, weeds have taken over on the berm after council delivered new soil but never sowed any grass seed? When will it be regrassed?
Roading/Streets, 8 Nov 2018
Hello, when are the council going to redo the grass been in Sickens St? Years ago it was supposed to be planted in natives but ended up with
Roading/Streets, 2 Dec 2016
Afterhours asshole parking over my driveway... Toyota Corolla HDF372
Elsewhere on Dickens Street
- 26 Dickens Street, 18 reports
- 28 Dickens Street, 17 reports
- 32 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 December 2016, most often roading/streets (6), dumped rubbish (2), rubbish/recycling (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Dickens Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting.
Mountfort Park, 74 m to its edge.