161 Sparks Road
2 council reports since December 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 89 Sparks Road, 26 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
- Gainsborough Reserve, 351 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 323 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 343 m away · Pharmacies
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hoon Hay ran about $573 a week, $23 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 15 Aug 2026 Residents have dumped this on the footpath, they do this often ??
Dumped Rubbish, 3 Dec 2025 TV
Elsewhere on Sparks Road
- 89 Sparks Road, 26 reports
- 66 Sparks Road, 25 reports
- 67 Sparks Road, 15 reports
- 89A Sparks Road, 14 reports
- 90 Sparks Road, 13 reports
- 62 Sparks Road, 12 reports
- 257 Sparks Road, 12 reports
- 87 Sparks Road, 11 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sparks Road in 37 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 9 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Sparks Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hoon Hay → · 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 December 2025, most often dumped rubbish (2).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Gainsborough Reserve, 351 m to its edge.