179 Gilberthorpes Road
3 council reports since January 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 151 Gilberthorpes Road, 12 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
- Broomfield Common, 36 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Little Oaks Reserve, 202 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Kaniere Reserve, 259 m to the edge · 3 ha
- Malabar Reserve, 323 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Champagne Reserve, 345 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 26 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Suburban Stays, 369 m away · Hostels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manurere St near Tauiwi Cres, 334 m away · route 130
- Manurere St near Tauiwi Cres, 341 m away · route 130
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 Hei Hei ran about $580 a week, $30 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
Flooding, 15 Jan 2026 flooding as usual every time it rains. when can we get a permanent fix
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 7 May 2025 Hinge broken on cast iron grate. Grate has fallen in with part projecting vertically into channel. Suggest replace with cycle friendly gra
Roading/Streets, 17 Jan 2022 Weeds
Elsewhere on Gilberthorpes Road
- 151 Gilberthorpes Road, 12 reports
- 141 Gilberthorpes Road, 12 reports
- 155A Gilberthorpes Road, 7 reports
- 155 Gilberthorpes Road, 5 reports
- 177 Gilberthorpes Road, 4 reports
- 121 Gilberthorpes Road, 4 reports
- 51 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports
- 142 Gilberthorpes Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Gilberthorpes Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Gilberthorpes Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hei Hei → · 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 2022, most often street gutters / storm water (1), roading/streets (1), flooding (1).
Hei Hei, Christchurch, on Gilberthorpes Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Broomfield Common, 36 m to its edge, 9 ha.


