488 Sparks Road
3 council reports since December 2021, 2 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
- Halswell Domain, 337 m to the edge · Sports ground · 26 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Sparks Walkway, 342 m to the edge
- Muir Park, 382 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 33 pieces
- Kinrara Reserve, 486 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 civic shelf nearby
- Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre, 486 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Ray White, 11 m away · Real estate
- Halswell Butchery, 16 m away · Butchers
- MetroMart, 22 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Knockout Fitness, 37 m away · Gyms & fitness
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Halswell Rd nearHalswell Junction Rd, 106 m away · route 100
- Halswell Rd near Village Lane, 135 m away · route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 7 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 50 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 65 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 433 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.
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
- Graffiti, 2
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 24 Feb 2025- Graffiti, 18 Nov 2023
Graffiti, 28 Dec 2021 488 Sparks Rd - Graffiti on (meter?) box attached to front wall of Ray Whites office
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
3 council reports on record since December 2021, most often graffiti (2), hazard, vehicle (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Halswell Domain, 337 m to its edge, 26 ha.