287 Centaurus Road

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, you are in it · 1 ha
• Hansen Park, 24 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
• Centaurus Park, 377 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

• Saint Martins Valley Tennis Club, 310 m away · Sports centres
• St Martins Garage, 335 m away · Car repair
• Mobil, 337 m away · Petrol stations
• Mobil Mart, 338 m away · Dairies & convenience

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Wilsons Rd, 391 m away · route 27
• Wilsons Rd, 393 m away · route 27

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 63 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 65 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 124 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 188 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 188 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• In Loving Memory, 133 m away · In loving memory of/ Dr. David E Hansen and Professor Dr. John M Hansen,/ father and son w · 2026
• A Glass of Wine, a Quiet Smoke, 136 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, 140 m away · DONATED BY THE FAMILY OF HUGH AND JUNE SMITH FOR ALL TO ENJOY · 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

• Graffiti, 3
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Pavement - General, 1
• Overgrown Vegetation, 1
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 1

Photographed here 6 on record

more photographs
on the Hillsborough wall →

What’s on record

• Pavement - General, 22 Sept 2025 Residents keep blocking the footpath.
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 27 May 2024 Hansens Park Mens and woman's toilets
• Overgrown Vegetation, 10 Mar 2023
• Roading/Streets, 5 May 2022 I'm Hansen park. Giant hole
• Graffiti, 12 Mar 2022 On the althletics club wall facing the playground at Hansen Park
• Graffiti, 20 Feb 2022
• Graffiti, 11 Nov 2021

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
• 275 Centaurus Road, 7 reports
• 335 Centaurus Road, 6 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 crashes it names, each one →

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.