48 Sparks Road
11 council reports since March 2019, 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
- Centennial Park, 15 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 220 m to the edge
- Rydal Reserve, 262 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.
The civic shelf nearby
- Pioneer, 319 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Wild Bean Cafe - BP Hoon Hay, 237 m away · Cafés
- BP, 245 m away · Petrol stations
- Plunge Cafe, 302 m away · Cafés
- Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre, 306 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sparks Rd near Hoon Hay Rd, 27 m away · route 60
- Sparks Rd near Waimokihi Pl, 92 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hoon Hay, 47 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hoon Hay, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, 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
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 3
- Graffiti, 3
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2
- Street Light Outage, 1
- Roading/Streets, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 10 on record
What’s on record
Street Light Outage, 14 Dec 2025 Street light not working on corner, comes on for two seconds then is out for a minute, comes on for two seconds again.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Jul 2025 Graffiti on ccc box
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Dec 2024 Graffiti on ccc box
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Oct 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 5 Oct 2024
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Mar 2024
General Request, 31 Jan 2024 Tire in river along bike path, just behind the Maori kura on bike path.
Graffiti, 18 Dec 2023 Graffiti on ccc box
- Graffiti, 12 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 21 Oct 2021 Graffiti on ccc box
Roading/Streets, 1 Mar 2019
Reflective discs on lamp post painted over. Not reflecting corner marking
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
11 council reports on record since March 2019, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), graffiti (3), graffiti somewhere else (2).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Centennial Park, 15 m to its edge, 10 ha.