7B 7B
7 council reports since May 2016, 7 carrying a photograph.
On the register here
- Former Cashmere Servants' Quarters and Setting, 30 Shalamar Drive (194m)
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
- Worsleys Reserve, you are in it
- Cashmere Stream Esplanade Reserve, 115 m to the edge · 5 ha
- Holmcroft Reserve, 154 m to the edge · Botanic
- Shalamar Reserve, 179 m to the edge
- Bengal Reserve, 241 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Cracroft Dairy, 155 m away · Dairies & convenience
- 50 Shades of Fabulous Hair Salon, 159 m away · Hairdressers
- Silverbacks Cafe, 164 m away · Cafés
- Cracroft Fresh Fried, 167 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hoon Hay Rd near Cashmere Rd, 207 m away · route 44, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Hoon Hay Rd near Cashmere Rd, 237 m away · route 44, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Cracroft, 16 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cracroft, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cracroft, 375 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Cracroft, 450 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Holmcroft Reserve plaque, 159 m away ·
(illegible – plaque too distant)
· 2013 - In Memory of Graham Strange Chairperson 2002 - 2004, 175 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF GRAHAM STRANGE CHAIRPERSON 2002 - 2004
· 2008 - Presented by Mr. R.K. Baker Chairman of Grounds Committee, 219 m away ·
PRESENTED BY MR. R.K. BAKER CHAIRMAN OF GROUNDS COMMITTEE 1981-89 CHAIRMAN OF CRACROFT COM
· 2008
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 Cracroft ran about $713 a week, $163 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Parks, 4
- Rubbish/Recycling, 3
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish/Recycling, 4 Feb 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 12 Dec 2021
Parks, 26 May 2020 This installation is broken and is falling to bits. It needs to be repaired before vandals destroy this treasure, please.
Parks, 9 Feb 2019
Broken seat
Parks, 30 Nov 2018
Looking a bit dangerous. Actually not sure the Waratah and wire is needed now. Thanks for looking into it.
Rubbish/Recycling, 13 Jul 2016
Over flowing bin with rubbish blowing all about
Parks, 5 May 2016
Graffiti on Picnic table in park
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.
Everything about Cracroft → · 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 May 2016, most often parks (4), rubbish/recycling (3).
Cracroft, Christchurch, on B.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Cashmere Servants' Quarters and Setting.
Worsleys Reserve, the address is inside it.


