48 Dickens Street
7 council reports since May 2018, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 26 Dickens Street, 18 reports on file.
On the register here
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Belltower and Setting (146m)
- Church Square and Setting, 21A Church Square (153m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin Lychgate and Setting (153m)
- Church of St Mary the Virgin and Setting, 21A Church Square (169m)
- Former Addington Gaol, Wall and Setting, 15/336 Lincoln Road (206m)
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, 114 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cornelius O'connor Reserve, 254 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Jerrold Reserve, 379 m to the edge
- Addington Park, 395 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Addington Cemetery, 475 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, 167 m away · Hostels
- Young Sing Takeaway, 238 m away · Fast food
- Burger King, 254 m away · Fast food
- Citywide Florist, 262 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, 109 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 127 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 280 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 313 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, 141 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 9 Feb 2026 Over grown kerb flowers and bush beside road which is obstructing view of footpath when turning into driveway - danger to pedestrians, narro
- Graffiti, 14 Nov 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 30 Sept 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 29 Sept 2023
Roading/Streets, 19 Jun 2022 Hi. I'm am stopped at the intersection with the front of the car level with Parlane St. The bush on the right is obscuring the ability to se
Rubbish/Recycling, 12 Jul 2019
Graffiti, 16 May 2018
On fence with mural
Elsewhere on Dickens Street
- 26 Dickens Street, 18 reports
- 28 Dickens Street, 17 reports
- 44 Dickens Street, 9 reports
- 32 Dickens Street, 9 reports
- 23 Dickens Street, 8 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
7 council reports on record since May 2018, most often graffiti (2), dumped rubbish (2), rubbish/recycling (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Dickens Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Church of St Mary the Virgin Belltower and Setting, Church Square and Setting.
Mountfort Park, 114 m to its edge.

