56 Murphys Road
2 council reports since January 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20 Murphys Road, 11 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
- Quaifes Road Springlands, 208 m to the edge · 10 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Bombay Butler - Halswell, 303 m away · Restaurants
- Longhurst Health, 305 m away · Business
- Verge Cafe, 306 m away · Cafés
- Longhurst Pharmacy, 308 m away · Pharmacies
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
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
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 13 Aug 2026 off roaders are damaging the basin. what can be done? noise from the vehicles impacting residents and long lasting damage to the reserve!!
Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Jan 2025 Please come and finish mowing the Murphys road drainage area - all the weeds are seeding and it looks very messy Thank you
Elsewhere on Murphys Road
- 20 Murphys Road, 11 reports
- 77 Murphys Road, 8 reports
- 70R Murphys Road, 4 reports
- 2 Murphys Road, 4 reports
- 1 Murphys Road, 4 reports
- 66 Murphys Road, 3 reports
- 62 Murphys Road, 3 reports
- 50 Murphys Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Murphys Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Murphys 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
2 council reports on record since January 2025, most often overgrown vegetation (1), general request (1).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Murphys Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Quaifes Road Springlands, 208 m to its edge, 10 ha.