2 Wales Street
2 council reports since February 2021, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 106 Wales Street, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
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
- Halswell Domain, 147 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Fern Reserve, 153 m to the edge · playground, 35 pieces
- Balcairn Reserve, 285 m to the edge · playground, 30 pieces
- Old Red Barn Drainage Reserve, 313 m to the edge
- Scott Park Wigram, 315 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 61 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Halswell Fish and Chip Shop, 78 m away · Fast food
- Halswell Fish & Chips, 79 m away · Fast food
- Oaks Village Foodmart, 226 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Urban Seafoods, 227 m away · Fast food
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 133 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 Halswell ran about $697 a week, $147 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
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 4 Aug 2026 Drain full of leaves and not draining, causing flooding on road and sometimes footpath. Drain cover needs to be lifted and cleared of leaves
Water Supply, 3 Feb 2021 water supply leaking
Elsewhere on Wales Street
- 106 Wales Street, 10 reports
- 152 Wales Street, 8 reports
- 33 Wales Street, 7 reports
- 143 Wales Street, 6 reports
- 125 Wales Street, 5 reports
- 106E Wales Street, 5 reports
- 69 Wales Street, 4 reports
- 191 Wales Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wales Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Wales 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
2 council reports on record since February 2021, most often water supply (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Wales Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Halswell War Memorial and Setting.
Halswell Domain, 147 m to its edge, 26 ha.