259 Sparks Road
8 council reports since July 2022, 5 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, 476 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 16 Mar 2026 Dumped rubbish
Flooding, 1 May 2025 Extensive build up of stormwater and can’t tell if drain is blocked (although that is a very common issue)
- Flooding, 23 Jul 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 9 Jul 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 28 Mar 2023
Flooding, 26 Jul 2022 Aware that this will be an issue today, but surface flooding already starting to be a problem here and a full day of rain yet to go.
Flooding, 21 Jul 2022 Stormwater now starting to flood properties alongside Sparks Road.
Flooding, 12 Jul 2022 Stormwater backing up. Issue has been ongoing for months and worse today due to continuing rain.
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 July 2022, most often flooding (5), street gutters / storm water (2), dumped rubbish (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hoon Hay Park, 476 m to its edge, 10 ha.