423 Sparks Road
1 council report since March 2026, 1 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
- Sparks Road Landscape Reserve, 49 m to the edge
- Sparks Walkway, 173 m to the edge
- Six Silvers Reserve, 222 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Halswell Domain, 329 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Shield Reserve, 342 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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 471 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Six Silvers Reserve plaque, 236 m away
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 1 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 8 Mar 2026 Please explain the purpose of this footpath, which ends without any pedestrian connections. There is no link or bridge to the adjoining subd
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
1 council report on record since March 2026, most often pavement - general (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sparks Road Landscape Reserve, 49 m to its edge.