78 Sapphire Street
2 council reports since May 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 69 Sapphire Street, 5 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
- Tulett Park, 170 m to the edge · Sports ground · 8 ha · playground, 49 pieces
- Mendip Reserve, 203 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Larch Reserve, 482 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Casebrook Surgery, 330 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Etta Restaurant & Bar, 373 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Highsted Rd near Ludhiana St, 91 m away · route 27
- Highsted Rd near Ludhiana St, 102 m away · route 27
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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 Casebrook ran about $598 a week, $48 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 4 Feb 2026 One way system still up on Sapphire Street. Not one worker to be seen. Pretty slack and unprofessional since it was meant to be done by Mond
Dumped Rubbish, 13 May 2025 Dumped mattress
Elsewhere on Sapphire Street
- 69 Sapphire Street, 5 reports
- 55 Sapphire Street, 5 reports
- 43 Sapphire Street, 5 reports
- 23 Sapphire Street, 3 reports
- 64B Sapphire Street, 2 reports
- 61 Sapphire Street, 2 reports
- 53 Sapphire Street, 2 reports
- 47F Sapphire Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sapphire Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Harewood 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.
Sapphire Street, the whole record → · Everything about Casebrook → · 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
2 council reports on record since May 2025, most often road signage (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Casebrook, Christchurch, on Sapphire Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Tulett Park, 170 m to its edge, 8 ha.

