70 Burke Street
4 council reports since October 2017, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 91 Burke Street, 39 reports on file.
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
- Baxters Drain, 94 m to the edge
- Ruskin Reserve, 106 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Addington Cemetery, 202 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Antigua Reserve, 254 m to the edge
- Braddon Reserve, 260 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
- Flyrite Dart Club, 274 m away · Clubs
- Christchurch Electrical, 318 m away · Electricians
- Tasman Traders, 331 m away · Op shops
- gilt edge, 331 m away · Car parts
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Antigua St near Fairfield Ave, 173 m away · route 120
- Brougham St near Barrie St, 274 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 132 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 378 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 430 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- The Thistle, Reproduced Here From the Addington Cemetery, 109 m away ·
The Thistle, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, forms part of the Literary Stree
· 2008 - Baxters Drain plaque, 109 m away ·
(Decorative thistle carving – no text)
· 2008 - The Passionflowers, Reproduced Here From the Addington, 123 m away ·
The passionflowers, reproduced here from the Addington Cemetery, form part of the Literary
· 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 17 Jul 2026 rubbish
Overgrown Vegetation, 4 Nov 2024 Overgrown bushes along footpath
Rubbish/Recycling, 3 Feb 2021 This was dumped in Burke Street some time ago. Please could it be removed. Thanks!
Water Supply, 29 Oct 2017
Water main has been leaking for several months
Elsewhere on Burke Street
- 91 Burke Street, 39 reports
- 46 Burke Street, 32 reports
- 72 Burke Street, 25 reports
- 77 Burke Street, 18 reports
- 42A Burke Street, 13 reports
- 83 Burke Street, 12 reports
- 61 Burke Street, 10 reports
- 88 Burke Street, 9 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Burke Street in 4 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.
Burke 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 October 2017, most often water supply (1), rubbish/recycling (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Burke Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Baxters Drain, 94 m to its edge.


