56 Torrens Road
2 council reports since July 2021, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Torrens Road, 22 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
- Torrens Reserve, 26 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Linden Grove, 156 m to the edge
- Marylands Reserve, 178 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha
- Pavilion Park, 342 m to the edge
- Cardigan Bay Reserve, 376 m to the edge · playground, 37 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Youth Specialty Services, 207 m away · Hospital
- schieder electrical, 220 m away · Electronics
- The Event Collective, 244 m away · Caterers
- CJ's Takeaways, 398 m away · Fast food
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 125 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 377 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 450 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 472 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 474 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hillmorton ran about $590 a week, $40 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1
- Parks, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish/Recycling, 27 May 2022 Home brand trolley
Parks, 14 Jul 2021 Illegal dumping
Elsewhere on Torrens Road
- 53 Torrens Road, 22 reports
- 55 Torrens Road, 15 reports
- 54 Torrens Road, 13 reports
- 52 Torrens Road, 10 reports
- 14 Torrens Road, 10 reports
- 58 Torrens Road, 7 reports
- 7 Torrens Road, 6 reports
- 57 Torrens Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Torrens Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon 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.
Torrens Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hillmorton → · 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 July 2021, most often rubbish/recycling (1), parks (1).
Hillmorton, Christchurch, on Torrens Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Torrens Reserve, 26 m to its edge.

