12 Deacon Street
3 council reports since December 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Deacon Street.
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
- Alvaston Reserve, 78 m to the edge
- Viceroy Reserve, 192 m to the edge · playground, 28 pieces
- Vanderbilt Reserve, 302 m to the edge
- Patterson Reserve, 313 m to the edge
- Ridder Reserve, 426 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Subway, 305 m away · Fast food
- Winners Restaurant, 310 m away · Fast food
- Indian Roots, 339 m away · Restaurants
- Pint And Pony Sports Bar, 339 m away · Bars & pubs
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.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Halswell ran about $697 a week, $147 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 14 Aug 2025 Unknown person dumped rubbish bags and green waste in an empty section on the corner of John Annan St and Deacon St.
Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Dec 2024 Overgrown vegetation , looks very dry and like a fire risk
General Request, 8 Dec 2023 Not sure of councils authority here but overgrown empty section could possibly be a fire risk?
Elsewhere on Deacon Street
- 5 Deacon Street, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Deacon Street, the whole record → · Everything about Halswell → · 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
3 council reports on record since December 2023, most often overgrown vegetation (1), general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Deacon Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Alvaston Reserve, 78 m to its edge.


