28 Gainsborough Street
10 council reports since May 2023, 9 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Gainsborough Street.
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, you are in it · playground, 10 pieces
- Hoon Hay Park, 432 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.
On the doorstep
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 349 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 354 m away · Pharmacies
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hoon Hay Rd near Smartlea St, 391 m away · route 60
- Hoon Hay Rd near Smartlea St, 404 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
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 27 Sept 2026 idk, just walked by. i live nearby. just saw this
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 18 Apr 2026 Graffiti on slide
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Mar 2026 Two tags - fenceline and park bench. Close to the middle of Gainsborough reserve park
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 16 Oct 2025 Graffiti sprayed on concrete path and adjacent bench
Park - General Request, 10 Oct 2025 Large tree branch down in Gainsborough Reserve.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 26 Sept 2025
Rubbish and Bins - General, 17 May 2024 Overfull...dig poo bags all over the top. Gross beside the playground
Rubbish and Bins - General, 16 Feb 2024 Bin needs emptying
Litter, 18 Dec 2023 Bin full, needs to be emptied
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 May 2023
Elsewhere on Gainsborough Street
- 63 Gainsborough Street, 3 reports
- 17B 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
10 council reports on record since May 2023, most often graffiti on a playground or in a park (3), rubbish and bins - general (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Gainsborough Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Gainsborough Reserve, the address is inside it.








