257 Sparks Road
12 council reports since May 2021, 10 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, 460 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.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
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 10 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 1 May 2025 Severe flooding on Sparks Road. Water starting to enter property. The flooding covers the whole road in places. Please consider closing th
Flooding, 27 Jan 2025 Blocked drains on sparks road. Happens every time it rains.
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 25 Jul 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 28 Mar 2023
Wastewater/Stormwater, 21 Jul 2022 Blocked drains causing flooding into property along sparks road
Flooding, 21 Jul 2022 Worsening flooding. Threating property. Please help
Roading/Streets, 21 Jul 2022 Drains blocked causing flooding into property
Flooding, 21 Jul 2022 Extensive flooding into houses among this section of sparks road
Roading/Streets, 22 Dec 2021 Heavy road works machinery has been parked on the pavement today causing extensive damage to the footpath. This is a trip hazard.
Flooding, 15 Dec 2021 Stormwater drains along sparks road are failing again. This is similar to previous event 6 months ago causing extensive flood damage to mult
Wastewater/Stormwater, 2 Jun 2021 Drains along this section of sparks road are inadequate and do not drain. There are no large drains to drain storm water. The rain water has
Wastewater/Stormwater, 30 May 2021 Blocked drains resulting in flooding into properties
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
- 87 Sparks Road, 11 reports
- 48 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
12 council reports on record since May 2021, most often flooding (5), wastewater/stormwater (3), street gutters / storm water (2).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hoon Hay Park, 460 m to its edge, 10 ha.