74E Ensign Street
7 council reports since March 2024, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 69 Ensign Street, 8 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
- Dunbars Landscape Reserve, 112 m to the edge
- Cunningham Reserve, 130 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Bishops Green, 177 m to the edge
- The Oaks Park, 204 m to the edge
- Old Red Barn Drainage Reserve, 347 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- BP, 94 m away · Petrol stations
- BP Petrol Station Halswell Road, 101 m away · Petrol stations
- Hoi An House, 300 m away · Restaurants
- Halswell Pharmacy, 320 m away · Chemist
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Dunbars Rd near Ensign St, 68 m away · route 100
- Halswell Rd near Milns Rd, 140 m away · route 7, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Halswell, 120 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 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
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 1 May 2025 heavily flood
Water Leak, 9 Mar 2025 Water coming out from the Northbound lane side of the road from a previous repair?
Water Leak, 7 Mar 2025 Can't see where it's coming from but ive been driving over it for at least a week
Water Leak, 5 Mar 2025 I think this is a leak under the patched up bit of road and I’m worried it’s going to cause a sink hole
Water Leak, 1 Mar 2025 Water leak, possibly fresh or wastewater due to location. Bubbling up from quick cut lines
Roads - General, 4 Jul 2024 The vehicle crossing at this location is too steep, causing frequent damage to the underside of vehicles. Additionally, the stormwater drain
Water Leak, 16 Mar 2024 Ensign St. Just in front of Orion electrical unit.
Elsewhere on Ensign Street
- 69 Ensign Street, 8 reports
- 73 Ensign Street, 5 reports
- 44 Ensign Street, 5 reports
- 38A Ensign Street, 5 reports
- 77 Ensign Street, 4 reports
- 75 Ensign Street, 4 reports
- 38 Ensign Street, 4 reports
- 72 Ensign Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ensign Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Ensign Street, 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
7 council reports on record since March 2024, most often water leak (5), roads - general (2).
Halswell, Christchurch, on Ensign Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Dunbars Landscape Reserve, 112 m to its edge.






