6R Desmond Street

On the register here

• Bridge and Setting (84m)
• Dwelling and Setting, 2 Helmores Lane (148m)
• Dwelling and Setting, 16 Helmores Lane (201m)

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

• Little Hagley Park, 31 m to the edge · Botanic · 7 ha
• Millbrook Reserve, 94 m to the edge · Botanic
• Hagley Park North, 99 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
• Carlton Mill Riverbank, 333 m to the edge
• Mona Vale, 417 m to the edge · Botanic · 5 ha

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Hagley Golf Club, 285 m away · Golf courses
• Club House Cafe, 384 m away · Cafés

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Harper Ave near Deans Ave, 182 m away · route 29
• Rossall St near Rhodes St, 256 m away · route 8

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 28 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 103 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 145 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 170 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Little Hagley Park plaque, 25 m away · 2017
• Little Hagley Park plaque, 146 m away · 2010
• In Loving Memory of / James Ryder Burford / 1944 - 2017, 162 m away · In loving memory of/ James Ryder Burford/ 1944 - 2017/ cherished father, brother,/ partner · 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 Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Litter, 3
• Trees - General, 2
• Pavement - General, 1
• Park - General Request, 1
• Graffiti somewhere else, 1
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 1

Photographed here 8 on record

more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

What’s on record

• Litter, 26 Jul 2026 Broken bottle glass on path. Dangerous.
• Litter, 25 Jul 2026 Bag of dog faeces
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 19 Jul 2026 on bridge railings Helmore Lane bridge
• Pavement - General, 19 Jul 2026 Canada geese poo covering footpath near Helmore Lane bridge. it's pretty gross. please clean up the mess and eradicate the pests!
• Litter, 22 Feb 2026 Dog faeces in a bag
• Trees - General, 19 Feb 2026 Branch hanging low over footpath, lower than head height. Needs trimmed.
• Park - General Request, 1 Jul 2024 There is a large tree branch in the Avon River restricting flow.
• Graffiti somewhere else, 13 Apr 2024 On lamppost along walkway from Helmores Lane bridge heading to Fendalton Rd. Near a seat overlooking river
• Trees - General, 24 Jan 2024 Broken Branch in tree (hanger)

Elsewhere on Desmond Street

• 10 Desmond Street, 3 reports
• 16 Desmond Street, 1 report

The civic layer

This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.