279 Centaurus Road
1 council report since February 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 299 Centaurus Road, 16 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
- Hansen Park, you are in it · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- King George V Reserve, 21 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Centaurus Park, 311 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 42 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- St Martins Garage, 268 m away · Car repair
- Mobil, 270 m away · Petrol stations
- Mobil Mart, 271 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Saint Martins Valley Tennis Club, 276 m away · Sports centres
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 Hillsborough, 48 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 58 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 86 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 170 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 255 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
- A Glass of Wine, a Quiet Smoke, 69 m away ·
A glass of wine, a quiet smoke/ A time to dream, a time to hope/ Phil Quilter/ 1951-2005
· 2008 - Donated by the Family of Hugh and June Smith for All, 77 m away ·
DONATED BY THE FAMILY OF HUGH AND JUNE SMITH FOR ALL TO ENJOY
· 2008 - In Memory of / Desmond Timbrell / 1921 – 2007 / in Memory, 99 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF / DESMOND TIMBRELL / 1921 – 2007 / IN MEMORY OF / BERESFORD TIMBRELL / 1926 –
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
- Fallen Tree, 1
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 5 Feb 2025 Tree down across river
Elsewhere on Centaurus Road
- 299 Centaurus Road, 16 reports
- 297 Centaurus Road, 16 reports
- 333 Centaurus Road, 11 reports
- 331 Centaurus Road, 10 reports
- 282 Centaurus Road, 10 reports
- 351 Centaurus Road, 7 reports
- 287 Centaurus Road, 7 reports
- 275 Centaurus Road, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Centaurus Road in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 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.
Centaurus Road, 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
1 council report on record since February 2025, most often fallen tree (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Centaurus Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hansen Park, the address is inside it, 12 ha.