330A Sparks Road
6 council reports since March 2021, 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 green nearby
- Milns Drainage Reserve, 307 m to the edge · 1 ha
- John Olliver Reserve, 456 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Milns Reserve, 474 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Banbury Park Village, 269 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 498 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 3 Aug 2026 tree has fallen across the bike lane. it is nearly completely blocking the lane
Overgrown Vegetation, 31 Jul 2026 The tree branches are hanging low over the cycle lane, it would be great if they could be trimmed. Thanks.
Road Signage, 29 Jun 2024 Road markings need to be re done. Where they have blacked out the markings still looks like a marking and before you know it you are on the
- Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 5 Jul 2023
Roading/Streets, 10 Jul 2022 Broken reflectors all along the cycleway. Some completely missing.
Roading/Streets, 29 Mar 2021 3 steel rebar pieces fell from truck, not sure if they belong to the Bushnell builders note. I removed them from the road and placed on the
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
- 469 Sparks Road, 5 reports
- 302 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
6 council reports on record since March 2021, most often roading/streets (2), sewer - leak / blockage (1), road signage (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Milns Drainage Reserve, 307 m to its edge, 1 ha.