55 Gainsborough Street
2 council reports since September 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 28 Gainsborough Street, 10 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
- Gainsborough Reserve, 190 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Rydal Reserve, 487 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.
On the doorstep
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 194 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 210 m away · Pharmacies
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
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
- Water Leak, 1
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 9 Sept 2025 Water flowing out of storm water outlet for number 55. You can hear the water meter nearby ticking over also. So probably a private leak tha
Litter, 8 Sept 2022
Elsewhere on Gainsborough Street
- 28 Gainsborough Street, 10 reports
- 63 Gainsborough Street, 3 reports
- 17B Gainsborough Street, 3 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
2 council reports on record since September 2022, most often water leak (1), litter (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Gainsborough Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Gainsborough Reserve, 190 m to its edge.

