198 Sparks Road
8 council reports since August 2023, 6 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
- Hoon Hay Park, 463 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 59 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
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
- Dumped Rubbish, 3
- Road Signage, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Nov 2025 Someone dumped a mattress or box springs
Road Signage, 3 Nov 2025 It would appear when the Sparks Road was having their roadworks that these Chevron markers have been removed. I’ve taken photos of all four
Dumped Rubbish, 27 Jan 2025 Outside 215 Tudor Oaks
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 26 Jul 2024 Graffiti on Green cabinet.
Dumped Rubbish, 11 Mar 2024 Tires dumped, near sparks road bike path.
Overgrown Vegetation, 26 Dec 2023 Overgrown hedge
- General Request, 25 Aug 2023
- Graffiti, 6 Aug 2023
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
8 council reports on record since August 2023, most often dumped rubbish (3), road signage (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hoon Hay Park, 463 m to its edge, 10 ha.