1E Tompkins Lane
5 council reports since April 2024, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Tompkins Lane, 10 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
- Horseshoe Lake Reserve, 8 m to the edge · Regional · 33 ha
- Burwood Park, 9 m to the edge · Sports ground · 14 ha · playground, 49 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Shirley Rugby Football Club, 190 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Cresswell Ave and New Brighton Rd, 316 m away · route 7, route 110
- New Brighton Rd near Kingsford St, 349 m away · route 7, route 110
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Burwood, 310 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Burwood Park Playground Monume plaque, 75 m away · 2009
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 Burwood ran about $600 a week, $50 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pest / Vermin, 25 Feb 2026 large easp nest
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Oct 2024 Remnants of an earlier snap… not picked up.
Dumped Rubbish, 15 Oct 2024 … the council won’t take it away in normal rubbish, so it’s dumped so they do…
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Sept 2024
Street Light Outage, 30 Apr 2024 This light has been out for over a year
Elsewhere on Tompkins Lane
- 1 Tompkins Lane, 10 reports
- 7 Tompkins Lane, 4 reports
- 5 Tompkins Lane, 3 reports
- 9 Tompkins Lane, 2 reports
- 6 Tompkins Lane, 2 reports
- 2 Tompkins Lane, 2 reports
- 8 Tompkins Lane, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Burwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Tompkins Lane, the whole record → · Everything about Burwood → · 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
5 council reports on record since April 2024, most often dumped rubbish (3), street light outage (1), pest / vermin (1).
Burwood, Christchurch, on Tompkins Lane.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Horseshoe Lake Reserve, 8 m to its edge, 33 ha.




