17B Gainsborough Street
3 council reports since June 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 28 Gainsborough Street, 10 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, 54 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Rydal Reserve, 486 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
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 320 m away · Pharmacies
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 321 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Hoon Hay Special Dairy, 398 m away · Supermarkets
- The Corner Cafe & Bar, 398 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hoon Hay Rd near Smartlea St, 309 m away · route 60
- Hoon Hay Rd near Smartlea St, 320 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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
- Accessibility, 2
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Accessibility, 4 Aug 2024 I heard council was progressively removing these barriers from walkways. My kids use this one to get to school every day but the barriers ma
General Request, 26 Feb 2024 Hi, this completely blocks the path on both sides. It looks like there are some writing on the pavement so this might be getting fixed???
- Accessibility, 2 Jun 2023
Elsewhere on Gainsborough Street
- 28 Gainsborough Street, 10 reports
- 63 Gainsborough Street, 3 reports
- 55 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports
- 34 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports
- 32 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports
- 17 Gainsborough Street, 2 reports
- 48 Gainsborough Street, 1 report
- 38A Gainsborough Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Gainsborough Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Gainsborough Street, 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
3 council reports on record since June 2023, most often accessibility (2), general request (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Gainsborough Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Gainsborough Reserve, 54 m to its edge.

