8 Smacks Close
3 council reports since February 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Smacks Close.
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
- Smacks Creek Esplanade Reserve, 18 m to the edge
- Springvale Gardens Reserve, 244 m to the edge
- Smacks Creek Riverbank Reserve, 313 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Harewood Park, 350 m to the edge · Botanic · 11 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- City Firewood, 357 m away · Firewood
- npd, 371 m away · Petrol stations
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gardiners Rd near Smacks Cl, 129 m away · route 107
- Gardiners Rd near Smacks Cl, 134 m away · route 107
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 17 Nov 2024 Our water meter is full of water.
Overgrown Vegetation, 15 Nov 2024 Reserve behind our house is overgrown and needs mowing. Large trees need pruning.
- Overgrown Vegetation, 10 Feb 2023
Elsewhere on Smacks Close
- 3-7 Smacks Close, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Harewood ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Smacks Close, the whole record → · Everything about Harewood → · 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 February 2023, most often overgrown vegetation (2), water leak (1).
Harewood, Christchurch, on Smacks Close.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Smacks Creek Esplanade Reserve, 18 m to its edge.

