7 Tompkins Lane
4 council reports since October 2019, 4 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
- Burwood Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 14 ha · playground, 49 pieces
- Horseshoe Lake Reserve, 153 m to the edge · Regional · 33 ha
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, 98 m away · Clubs
- Burwood Park Tennis Club, 359 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, 273 m away · route 7, route 110
- New Brighton Rd near Kingsford St, 358 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, 224 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, 85 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 26 Nov 2025 picked up all the branches I could, these are too big to collect. one lot of branches is over behind the cricket club building and another a
Park - General Request, 1 Sept 2025 Two Tyers.
Parks, 3 Feb 2020
tree branches and suckers
Parks, 21 Oct 2019
low hanging branches over lawn/sports field. hazard for mowers
Elsewhere on Tompkins Lane
- 1 Tompkins Lane, 10 reports
- 1E Tompkins Lane, 5 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
4 council reports on record since October 2019, most often parks (2), trees - general (1), park - general request (1).
Burwood, Christchurch, on Tompkins Lane.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Burwood Park, the address is inside it, 14 ha.

