21 Garforth Green
3 council reports since June 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 4 Garforth Green, 4 reports on file.
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
- Sparks Walkway, 130 m to the edge
- Halswell Domain, 246 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Sparks Road Landscape Reserve, 416 m to the edge
- Shield Reserve, 427 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre, 480 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Knockout Fitness, 215 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Ray White, 225 m away · Real estate
- Harcourts, 230 m away · Real estate
- Halswell Butchery, 232 m away · Butchers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Halswell Rd near Village Lane, 258 m away · route 100
- Halswell Rd near Village Lane, 293 m away · route 100, route 125
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 118 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 257 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 261 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
Abandoned Vehicle, 1 Sept 2025 Car without registration or WOF been parked in the parking area on Garforth Green for most of the year. Not fair on residents taking up this
Pavement - Damaged, 20 Jul 2025 These pot holes are near the entrance to No 26 and 28 Garforth Green. Have been fixed temporary since the last earthquake Need digging up a
- Water Leak, 7 Jun 2023
Elsewhere on Garforth Green
- 4 Garforth Green, 4 reports
- 28 Garforth Green, 4 reports
- 2 Garforth Green, 3 reports
- 8 Garforth Green, 1 report
- 30 Garforth Green, 1 report
- 20 Garforth Green, 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.
Garforth Green, 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 June 2023, most often water leak (1), pavement - damaged (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Garforth Green.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sparks Walkway, 130 m to its edge.

