16 Cooks Lane
3 council reports since January 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 13 Cooks Lane, 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
- Cooks Reserve, 44 m to the edge
- Martindales Reserve No. 1, 322 m to the edge
- Bridle Path Stream Reserve, 382 m to the edge
- Heathcote Quarry Reserve, 397 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Upshot, 231 m away · Cafés
- Heathcote Valley Gallery, 384 m away · Galleries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Martindales Rd near Station Rd, 274 m away · route 8
- Martindales Rd near Truscotts Rd, 276 m away · route 8
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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Heathcote Valley ran about $750 a week, $200 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Mar 2025 Dumped green waste and flax leaf
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 12 Mar 2025 Second snap about this blocked storm water drain. Getting worse each rain, no action taken yet. Heavier rain will flood mine and other prope
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 3 Jan 2025 Storm drain in need of clearing
Elsewhere on Cooks Lane
- 13 Cooks Lane, 8 reports
- 17 Cooks Lane, 5 reports
- 6 Cooks Lane, 3 reports
- 5 Cooks Lane, 2 reports
- 4 Cooks Lane, 1 report
- 3 Cooks Lane, 1 report
- 21 Cooks Lane, 1 report
- 20 Cooks Lane, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Cooks Lane in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Cooks Lane, the whole record → · Everything about Heathcote Valley → · 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 January 2025, most often street gutters / storm water (2), dumped rubbish (1).
Heathcote Valley, Christchurch, on Cooks Lane.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cooks Reserve, 44 m to its edge.


