8 Thornaby Close
6 council reports since August 2015, 3 carrying a photograph.
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
- Nepal Reserve, you are in it · 4 ha · playground, 22 pieces
- Roydvale Reserve, 339 m to the edge
- Wairakei Reserve, 390 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Westpark Chapel, 298 m away · Funeral directors
- Terra Viva Cafe & Deli, 321 m away · Restaurants
- Nova Cars, 322 m away · Car dealers
- CityFitness, 352 m away · Gyms & fitness
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Teesdale St near Deepdale St, 174 m away · route 120
- Teesdale St near Deepdale St, 212 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 352 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 381 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Burnside, 398 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Burnside ran about $641 a week, $91 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
Pest / Vermin, 17 Mar 2026 Hi I made a previous report about a wasp nest in Nepal Reserve. I have located another nest close by to the other nest, also visible from
Pest / Vermin, 6 Mar 2026 Hello , There is a very busy wasp nest next to the foot path in Nepal park that needs to be removed please. I hope the photos help to locate
- Park - General Request, 16 May 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 20 Feb 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 16 Oct 2022
Graffiti, 3 Aug 2015
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Thornaby Close in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Waimairi ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Thornaby Close, the whole record → · Everything about Burnside → · 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 August 2015, most often pest / vermin (2), dumped rubbish (2), park - general request (1).
Burnside, Christchurch, on Thornaby Close.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Nepal Reserve, the address is inside it, 4 ha.

