Cracroft, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 1% of it; the flood record drew water over 29% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 5 parks and 2 tracks, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 159 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 11 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 13 April 2016, 10 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Cracroft is a south-west suburb of Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand.

As reported 845 on record

845 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 2 in the archive

2 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

11 Oct 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water38–40 Hurunui St

Storm water drain pouring water out of it

9 Oct 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water31 Long Acre Drive

drains in the street and in the reserve are blocked and not draining away

8 Oct 2026 Abandoned Vehicle6 Caro Lane

someone has driven a ute into the basin area and got it stuck in the drain in worsleys basin

5 Oct 2026 Dumped Rubbish6 Betty Roberts Ln

Rubbish dumped again in same place. Probably the same person as first time as car parts. Inside bag is a nice hand drawn rego number. I did see a red car…

4 Oct 2026 Trees - General20 Worsleys Rd

Dead kowhai tree that could fall on park bench. Best to remove it.

3 Oct 2026 Dumped RubbishWorsleys Reserve 7B Worsleys Road

someone has dumped some tyes at the side of the road near the bridge

3 Oct 2026 Trees - GeneralWorsleys Reserve 7B Worsleys Road

this tree which next to the Worsleys Reserve sign seems to have a dead or rotting limb. its quite near the road. I think someone might pay to check it.

2 Oct 2026 Animal - Deceased3 Worsleys Road

dead possum

2 Oct 2026 Water Leak2 Betty Roberts Ln

Hi looks like something has burst loads of water just pouring across the drive. Black box thing in grass looks where it’s coming from.

29 Sept 2026 Damaged Road44 Worsleys Road

A stolen car did burnouts on the newly sealed road at Worsleys Rd. It looks like it has damaged the new seal It was reported to the police at the time at 12:00…

28 Sept 2026 Damaged Street SignCanterbury

Post holding the sign broken at ground level

21 Sept 2026 Pothole263–311 Worsleys Rd

A pothole in the middle of the road on the new seal has developed and is getting bigger - outside 319 Worsleys Road

How fast the council fixes things here 1,575 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Cracroft took 6 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 82 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 26 May 2021.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Schools here

Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Cashmere High School · Cashmere Primary Te Pae Kererū · Christchurch Adventist School · Christchurch South Karamata Intermediate School · Middleton Grange School · and 6 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 5

• Westmorland East Valley Reserve12 ha
• Cashmere Stream Esplanade Reserve5 ha
• Worsleys Reserve
• Waipara Playgroundplayground, 24 pieces
• Holmcroft ReserveBotanic

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The tracks through here 2

• Walk and bike track through Cracroft2.8 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Cracroft2.6 km · Christchurch · walk · bike

Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 2

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.8% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The flood record drew water over 29.5% of this outline, about 80 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 4% of this outline, about 10 hectares, rockfall management area 1, rockfall management area 2. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 61% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

The files record 53 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 16 hectares, mostly engineered fill, silt, loess, 1 carry fill the file can’t vouch for. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 61% of this outline in the "unlikely" class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 19 assets on this ground, 9 sets of steps, 4 bridges, 4 boardwalks, 1 shelter, sited at Worsleys Valley 1 Drainage Res, Worsleys Reserve, Cashmere Stream Esplanade Rese, Holmcroft Reserve. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 1 record inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 1 basketball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 344 living trees inside this outline, 12 veterans among them, 2 carrying a protection, mostly Totara, Kahikatea, Tulip tree. The file remembers 69 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 30% of this outline under Rural Port Hills, 35% residential, the rest mostly Rural Urban Fringe 26%, Residential Large Lot 19%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, Former Cashmere Servants' Quarters and Setting. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 26% of this outline, about 69 hectares across 1 scheduled area. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s flood map draws 15% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground, about 40 hectares across 3 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 25% of it, Heathcote River. 9 ponding spots are mapped here, where the models expect water to sit. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 23 classified reaches, the plan calling Cashmere Valley Drain and Worsleys Drain by name, 10% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 382 photographs on this ground, 2011–2013, wastewater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 2.4 km of cycleway crosses the outline. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 5 inscribed plaques, Holmcroft Reserve, Cashmere Stream Esplanade Rese among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 3 drawn instruments, 3 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 77 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M4.3 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

• Cashmere Streamwaterway · 5.0 km
• Cashmere Valley Lower Basinwetland

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 6 injury crashes

6 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Cracroft's outline, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Worsleys Road at Cashmere Road, 1 injury crash.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 95 recorded victimisations

95 victimisations on the Police record inside Cracroft’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 7 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 13% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

Businesses here 3 in the directory

3 premises in Cracroft across 3 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• Attractions1
• B&Bs1
• Cafés1

The whole directory →

On the register here

1. Clacroft Caverns18 Delhi Place
2. Former Cashmere Servants' Quarters and Setting30 Shalamar Drive

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Cracroft, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Cracroft 3 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Cracroft with Westmorland · Cashmere · Hoon Hay · Somerfield · Beckenham · Spreydon, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly