8 Amherst Place
1 council report since January 2026, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 21 Amherst Place, 3 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
- Elizabeth Park, 90 m to the edge · Regional · 17 ha
- Longhurst Reserve, 115 m to the edge
- Longhurst Walkway, 281 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Cracroft Reserve, 305 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Takahe Reserve, 337 m to the edge · playground, 29 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sign of the Takahe, 323 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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.
The remembered names nearby
- This Olive Tree Was Planted on / 20th May 1984, 142 m away ·
THIS OLIVE TREE WAS PLANTED ON / 20th MAY 1984 / TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF CRETE / WHIC
· 1998
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 Cashmere ran about $707 a week, $157 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 1
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 6 Jan 2026 water leak from under road
Elsewhere on Amherst Place
- 21 Amherst Place, 3 reports
- 19 Amherst Place, 3 reports
- 4 Amherst Place, 1 report
- 20 Amherst Place, 1 report
- 19C Amherst Place, 1 report
- 19B Amherst Place, 1 report
- 10 Amherst Place, 1 report
- 1 Amherst 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.
Amherst 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
1 council report on record since January 2026, most often water leak (1).
Cashmere, Christchurch, on Amherst Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Elizabeth Park, 90 m to its edge, 17 ha.