9 The Oval
3 council reports since July 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on The Oval.
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
- Sunnyside Heritage Garden, 18 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha
- Seager Park, 104 m to the edge · 3 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Pavilion Park, 106 m to the edge
- Albion Reserve, 147 m to the edge
- Mokihi Reserve, 175 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
- Forensic Community Team, 261 m away · Hospital
- Hillmorton Hospital, 375 m away · Hospital
- Youth Specialty Services, 387 m away · Hospital
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Halswell Rd near Coppell Pl, 446 m away · route 7
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 28 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 329 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 446 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 449 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillmorton, 488 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Memory of a Wonderful Lady / Nan Gibb, 190 m away ·
In memory of a wonderful lady/ Nan Gibb/ 1-11-1932 20-6-2013/ “Bide a wee”
· 2024
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
- Noise - Animal, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Flooding, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Noise - Animal, 28 Apr 2026 Dogs barking from 9am through to 12.30 pm today. This happens a lot.
Graffiti, 10 Aug 2022 In tunnel Annex Road. There are others nearby that have already been logged but not remedied
Flooding, 26 Jul 2022
Elsewhere on The Oval
- 5 The Oval, 2 reports
- 3A The Oval, 2 reports
- 7 The Oval, 1 report
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.
The Oval, 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
3 council reports on record since July 2022, most often noise - animal (1), graffiti (1), flooding (1).
Hillmorton, Christchurch, on The Oval.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sunnyside Heritage Garden, 18 m to its edge, 1 ha.