2 Vernon Terrace
7 council reports since March 2018, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Vernon Terrace, 22 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
- King George V Reserve, 70 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Hansen Park, 154 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Erewhon Reserve, 370 m to the edge
- Alderson Reserve, 476 m to the edge · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Saint Martins Valley Tennis Club, 377 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 33 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 44 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 72 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 181 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 272 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 Loving Memory, 163 m away ·
In loving memory of/ Dr. David E Hansen and Professor Dr. John M Hansen,/ father and son w
· 2026 - H.G. Ell Memorial Gates 25 June 1984 to Commemorate, 167 m away ·
H.G. ELL MEMORIAL GATES 25 June 1984 To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of H
· 2008
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 Hillsborough ran about $445 a week, $105 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Supply, 2
- Hazard, vehicle, 2
- Water General, 1
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Parks, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 28 Mar 2026 Freedom campers staying on the road start of Vernon Terrace
- Hazard, vehicle, 28 Mar 2026
There have been freedom camping / backpacking vans staying on the street outside 2 and 4 Vernon Terrace this week. Between 1 and 4 vans each
Water General, 1 Aug 2025 We went to shut off the water supply to the house so we could install a new washing machine and the shut off is no longer usable at all
- Roading/Streets, 20 Sept 2021
At 2 Vernon Tce there appears to be developing activity around repair of old Land Rover vehicles and this activity seems to be spilling onto
Water Supply, 3 Jun 2019
water meter leaking feeding public toilets
Water Supply, 21 May 2019
Leaking water meter needs to be repaired
Parks, 1 Mar 2018
Gravel on steps, tripping/slipping hazard, non compliant tread/rise standard
Elsewhere on Vernon Terrace
- 1 Vernon Terrace, 22 reports
- 11R Vernon Terrace, 11 reports
- 5 Vernon Terrace, 5 reports
- 96 Vernon Terrace, 4 reports
- 9 Vernon Terrace, 4 reports
- 7 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports
- 54 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports
- 52 Vernon Terrace, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Vernon Terrace in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Vernon Terrace, the whole record → · Everything about Hillsborough → · 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
7 council reports on record since March 2018, most often water supply (2), hazard, vehicle (2), water general (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Vernon Terrace.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
King George V Reserve, 70 m to its edge, 1 ha.

