302 Sparks Road
5 council reports since April 2018, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 270 Sparks Road, 20 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 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 2 Jun 2026 roadworks warning sign hangs over cycle Lane at about head height - not too bad when cycling from town to Halswell because front of sign is
Road Signage, 11 Aug 2025 Most of the edge marker posts separating Sparks Rd from the Quarryman’s Trail cycleways between Miln’s Rd and Henderson Rd have been smashed
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2022 Rubbish throughout stream
Graffiti, 13 May 2022 302 Sparks Rd opposite Collier Dr - Graffiti on light post
Rubbish/Recycling, 10 Apr 2018
Elsewhere on Sparks Road
- 270 Sparks Road, 20 reports
- 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
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 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.
Sparks Road, 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
5 council reports on record since April 2018, most often rubbish/recycling (1), road signage (1), poles and signage - general (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →