270 Sparks Road, Halswell
20 reports on record since January 2021 · 18 with photographs. The most-reported address on Sparks Road. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 18 on record
Reported here
Litter, shattered glass in sparks road wetlands carpark. looks like car glass possibly
Dumped Rubbish, Rubbish dumped. So sad. Sorry. Thanks
Dumped Rubbish, Dumped rubbish
Dumped Rubbish, Someone has dumped lots of rubbish. So terrible.
Dumped Rubbish, pile of rubbish by carpark at sparks rd near Henderson
Dumped Rubbish, Big pile if rubbish dumped
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 
Dumped Rubbish, carpet dumped in carpark
Dumped Rubbish, someone has dumped carpet and underlay at the edge of the parking lot
Street Gutters / Storm Water, walkway is being flooded numerous times in the last six months and I think the drainage from the east to lakes is blocked up and needs to be
Poles and Signage - General, Car has run over pedestrian barrier
Poles and Signage - General, Walkway sign post fallen over
Roads - General, Excess traffic management , use of temporary fencing put against a rural paddock with its own fence , then capped off with excessive amount
Dumped Rubbish, Glass smashed over carpark
- Facility - General Request,
The concrete slide gates for the weir are not being monitored and controlled properly. Hence the public walkway and surrounding grassed area
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, Graffiti on Cabinet next to PS 104
Dumped Rubbish, Couch has been dumped on the side of the road and has been there for months. There’s also one on the other side of the road directly opposit
- Dumped Rubbish,
Roading/Streets, sunken service trench. all sunk and one end collapsed.
Parks, walk ways extremely overgrown, need urgent mow
Also reported on Sparks Road
- 246 Sparks Road, 18 reports
- 381 Sparks Road, 11 reports
- 388 Sparks Road, 8 reports
- 376 Sparks Road, 8 reports
- 458 Sparks Road, 6 reports
- 330A Sparks Road, 6 reports
- 469 Sparks Road, 5 reports
- 302 Sparks Road, 5 reports
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 street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sparks Road in 29 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 seriously hurt.
The named ground
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 →.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
20 council reports on record since January 2021, most often dumped rubbish (10), poles and signage - general (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →