381 Sparks Road, Halswell
11 reports on record since January 2023 · 6 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 270 Sparks Road — 19 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Overgrown Vegetation — 2
- Graffiti — 2
- Water General — 1
- Roads - General — 1
- Road Signage — 1
- Pavement - Damaged — 1
Photographed here 6 on record
Reported here
Roads - General — Gravel all over the ‘new’ surface Roughest road repairs ever driven Deathly for motorcycles
Road Signage — 2x warning signs - one been hit and turned anti clockwise 90°. The other facing completely wrong way and has black spray paint on it
Flooding — The Orion Halswell Zone Substation has flooding from overflow of drainage ditch on Sparks Rd. This has resulted in a number of tree dying an
Pavement - Damaged — Hello. There is traffic management on site near the signalised ped/cycle crossing. There has been ac ramps in to get up and over the sawcut
Damaged Street Sign — Bike crossing lights don't trigger when you ride over the diamonds.
Overgrown Vegetation — The path between Miles Road and Sparks road is quite overgrown. There is bike diamonds for the lights and you can’t currently bike over them
- Graffiti —
- Facility - General Request —
- Graffiti —
- Overgrown Vegetation —
- Water General —
Also reported on Sparks Road
- 270 Sparks Road — 19 reports
- 246 Sparks Road — 18 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
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 green nearby
- Milns Drainage Reserve — 51 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Milns Reserve — 285 m to the edge
- John Olliver Reserve — 304 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Six Silvers Reserve — 330 m to the edge
- Sparks Road Landscape Reserve — 381 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Banbury Park Village — 330 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 — 343 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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 →.
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
11 council reports on record since January 2023 — most often overgrown vegetation (2), graffiti (2), water general (1).
Halswell, Christchurch — on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot — the record around this ground →
Milns Drainage Reserve — 51 m to its edge, 1 ha.





