74 Sparks Road
4 council reports since July 2016, 4 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
- Rydal Reserve, 82 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Centennial Park, 194 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 221 m to the edge
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, 473 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, 37 m away · Cafés
- BP, 49 m away · Petrol stations
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 373 m away · Pharmacies
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 392 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hoon Hay, 231 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hoon Hay, 499 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Wastewater/Stormwater, 4 Jul 2022 Water cover lose hidden underneath leaves went to put my foot on it as I was spotting my workamte and fall in the hole. This is a hazard esp
Roading/Streets, 8 Jun 2022 Footpath obstructed by hedges
Water Supply, 18 Aug 2018
Suspect water leak. Note the silt in the water.
Roading/Streets, 25 Jul 2016
Hedge is growing across footpath and pedestrians have to walk on berm to get past
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
4 council reports on record since July 2016, most often roading/streets (2), water supply (1), wastewater/stormwater (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rydal Reserve, 82 m to its edge.

