2 Norwood Street
6 council reports since October 2017, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20 Norwood Street, 56 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Beckenham Library and Setting, 65 Sandwich Road (93m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Beckenham Park, 91 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 34 pieces
- Waimea Reserve, 160 m to the edge
- Heathcote Riverbank True Left, 258 m to the edge · 4 ha
- Palatine Reserve, 324 m to the edge · playground, 38 pieces
- Farnley Reserve, 404 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
- Hettie’s Rock & Crystal Shop, 204 m away · Esoteric
- The Birdwood Eatery, 234 m away · Cafés
- The Birdwood Pizzeria, 242 m away · Restaurants
- Beckenham Bowling Club, 245 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Centaurus Rd near Austin Kirk Ln, 400 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 16 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 209 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 263 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 271 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 293 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Thank You for the Inspirational Journey Paul James Blacklow, 112 m away ·
Thank you for the inspirational journey Paul James Blacklow 26.10.1971 — 11.3.2007 You wer
· 2008 - Edgar Taylor Walk Duplicate Entry, 120 m away ·
EDGAR TAYLOR WALK duplicate entry (full text in 35498)
· 2008 - Planted by Beckenham Town Women'S Guild Coronation Year 1953, 146 m away ·
PLANTED BY BECKENHAM TOWN WOMEN'S GUILD CORONATION YEAR 1953
· 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 Beckenham ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 22 Jul 2026
Red bin not emptied yesterday. It is all of this side of Norwood Street, and Sandwich Road.
Litter, 7 May 2026 There is a lot of household rubbish strewn on the road along Sandwich Road, near the Norwood Street corner.
Poles and Signage - General, 12 Jun 2024 Reflective pole cnr of sandwich rd and Norwood st bent over.
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Mar 2023
- Roads - General, 27 Feb 2023
Water Supply, 20 Oct 2017
Opposite 54 Sandwich Road... stormwater sump has been discharhing clear water into curb and channel since before 7am today. Wasnt like this
Elsewhere on Norwood Street
- 20 Norwood Street, 56 reports
- 15 Norwood Street, 11 reports
- 14 Norwood Street, 10 reports
- 33 Norwood Street, 8 reports
- 27 Norwood Street, 8 reports
- 38A Norwood Street, 7 reports
- 29 Norwood Street, 7 reports
- 28 Norwood Street, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Norwood Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Norwood Street, the whole record → · Everything about Beckenham → · 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
6 council reports on record since October 2017, most often water supply (1), rubbish and bins - general (1), roads - general (1).
Beckenham, Christchurch, on Norwood Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Beckenham Library and Setting.
Beckenham Park, 91 m to its edge, 5 ha.

