7A Lowe Street
8 council reports since December 2021, 6 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 (142m)
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
- Christchurch Railway Station Reserve, 135 m to the edge · Botanic
- Hagley Park South, 249 m to the edge · Sports ground · 71 ha
- Longley Reserve, 333 m to the edge · playground, 51 pieces
- Walsall Reserve, 472 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
- Animates, 95 m away · Pet shops
- Number One Shoes, 117 m away · Shoes
- NZ Blood, 120 m away · Blood Donation
- Coastal Pacific Train, 125 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Mandeville St, 381 m away · route 140
- Whiteleigh Ave near Troup Dr, 434 m away · route 120, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 83 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 134 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, 272 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Addington, 290 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, 140 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
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Sept 2025 A bit of it along Lowe st bridge
Litter, 17 Mar 2025 Broken glass on the footpath of the Blenheim Road overbridge opposite both 7A Lowe Street and 5 Lowe Street. Some also on the road side of t
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 2 Aug 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 10 May 2024
Graffiti, 20 Jan 2024- Graffiti, 3 Dec 2022
- Street Cleaning, 1 Aug 2022
Cycle lane glass puncturing my bike tyres twice I bike Ferry Rd, Moorhouse Ave, Blenheim Rd every day in cycle lane from St Andrew’s Hill t
Graffiti, 30 Dec 2021 Blenheim Rd railway overbridge - multiple Graffiti on wall on Lowe St side of bridge. From railway line to Lowe/Anderson St corner
Elsewhere on Lowe Street
- 38 Lowe Street, 27 reports
- 36 Lowe Street, 9 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
- 30E 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
8 council reports on record since December 2021, most often graffiti (3), street cleaning (1), litter (1).
Addington, Christchurch, on Lowe Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Addington Railway Workshops Water Tower and Setting.
Christchurch Railway Station Reserve, 135 m to its edge.