8 Thorrington Road
2 council reports since April 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 24B Thorrington Road, 62 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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 74 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Thorrington Reserve, 93 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
- Remuera Reserve, 461 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Waimea Reserve, 470 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- South Christchurch Library, 349 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 368 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Beckenham Cycles, 126 m away · Bike shops
- Thorrington Chinese Takeaways, 128 m away · Fast food
- Thorrington Dairy, 130 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Thorrington Takeways, 132 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Thorrington Rd, 121 m away · route 1
- Colombo St near Thorrington Rd, 128 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 12 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 119 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 125 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 157 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 162 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 29 Jan 2026 water leak, not from my meter box, that is dry, but close by. In front of 8 Thorrington Rd
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 13 Apr 2024 Lots of leaves waiting to block drains
Elsewhere on Thorrington Road
- 24B Thorrington Road, 62 reports
- 30B Thorrington Road, 28 reports
- 15 Thorrington Road, 21 reports
- 26 Thorrington Road, 20 reports
- 24A Thorrington Road, 20 reports
- 27 Thorrington Road, 17 reports
- 20 Thorrington Road, 15 reports
- 24 Thorrington Road, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Thorrington Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Thorrington Road, 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
2 council reports on record since April 2024, most often water leak (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Cashmere, Christchurch, on Thorrington Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ernle Clark Reserve, 74 m to its edge, 2 ha.

