5 Scarff Place
7 council reports since January 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 11 Scarff Place, 8 reports on file.
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
- Longhurst Walkway, 34 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Longhurst Reserve, 169 m to the edge
- Takahe Reserve, 267 m to the edge · playground, 29 pieces
- Elizabeth Park, 397 m to the edge · Regional · 17 ha
- Cracroft Reserve, 459 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- 3rd Man Wines, 383 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 485 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Cashmere ran about $707 a week, $157 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
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 25 Aug 2026 Blocked drain.
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 31 Dec 2025 Blocked drain and weed growing
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 19 Oct 2025 Absolutely blocked and full of weed. Seriously please sort this out it's always like this
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 26 Apr 2025 Cess pit outlet not working
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 12 Oct 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 8 Oct 2023
Wastewater/Stormwater, 8 Jan 2019
The drain on the street appears to be blocked... Even after a full week of heat this water has not cleared at all.
Elsewhere on Scarff Place
- 11 Scarff Place, 8 reports
- 7A Scarff Place, 6 reports
- 6 Scarff Place, 3 reports
- 7 Scarff Place, 2 reports
- 3 Scarff Place, 2 reports
- 2 Scarff Place, 2 reports
- 10 Scarff Place, 2 reports
- 8 Scarff Place, 1 report
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.
Scarff Place, the whole record → · Everything about Cashmere → · 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
7 council reports on record since January 2019, most often street gutters / storm water (6), wastewater/stormwater (1).
Cashmere, Christchurch, on Scarff Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Longhurst Walkway, 34 m to its edge, 2 ha.



