2B Desi Place
2 council reports since January 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 4 Desi Place, 4 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
- Nuttall Reserve, 204 m to the edge
- Curries Reserve, 465 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pierogi Joint, 34 m away · Fast food
- Fryers Tuck, 315 m away · Fast food
- BP Truckstop, 372 m away · Petrol stations
- Rocky Auto, 380 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Port Hills Rd near Nuttall Dr, 170 m away · route 8
- Port Hills Rd near Nuttall Dr, 180 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hillsborough, 153 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 Leak, 1
- Water General, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water General, 31 Oct 2024 There appears to be a leaking watermain under the road
Water Leak, 11 Jan 2024 Looks like Toby box leaking at 2b Desi place since prior to Xmas. Ground very soggy now and running down road edge.
Elsewhere on Desi Place
- 4 Desi Place, 4 reports
- 9 Desi Place, 3 reports
- 7 Desi Place, 1 report
- 6 Desi Place, 1 report
- 2 Desi Place, 1 report
- 13 Desi Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Desi Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Desi Place, 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
2 council reports on record since January 2024, most often water leak (1), water general (1).
Hillsborough, Christchurch, on Desi Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Nuttall Reserve, 204 m to its edge.

