40 Arkwright Place
4 council reports since December 2019, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 42 Arkwright Place, 9 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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
- Westlake Reserve, 5 m to the edge · Sports ground · 11 ha · playground, 48 pieces
- Campion Reserve, 235 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Lancewood Reserve, 271 m to the edge
- Ridder Reserve, 367 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Vanderbilt Reserve, 384 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 bus nearby
- Lancewood Dr near Westlake Dr, 144 m away · route 125
- Westlake Dr near Lancewood Dr, 174 m away · route 125
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 162 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 217 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 309 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Memory of AJ Tragically Taken on 29-12-2004 Aged, 180 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF AJ TRAGICALLY TAKEN ON 29-12-2004 AGED 18 YEARS LOVED BY HIS FAMILY AND FRIEN
· 2008 - Built As a Joint Project Together With the Rotary Club, 198 m away ·
BUILT AS A JOINT PROJECT TOGETHER WITH THE ROTARY CLUB OF SAKAI-SOUTH EAST, JAPAN AND ROTA
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 10 Apr 2026 Westlake Park overgrown shrubbery by footpath.
Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Feb 2025 Vegetation has encroached on the footpath to such an extent that there is less than 50cm of path left.
- Graffiti, 9 Oct 2022
Parks, 13 Dec 2019
the walking path around Westlake is badly overgrown in places!
Elsewhere on Arkwright Place
- 42 Arkwright Place, 9 reports
- 38 Arkwright Place, 2 reports
- 19B Arkwright Place, 2 reports
- 11 Arkwright Place, 2 reports
- 6 Arkwright Place, 1 report
- 32 Arkwright Place, 1 report
- 28 Arkwright Place, 1 report
- 26 Arkwright Place, 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.
Arkwright Place, 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
4 council reports on record since December 2019, most often parks (1), park - general request (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Arkwright Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Westlake Reserve, 5 m to its edge, 11 ha.

