87 Sparks Road
11 council reports since January 2024, 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
- Rydal Reserve, 119 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 295 m to the edge
- Centennial Park, 306 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Gainsborough Reserve, 424 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- BP, 91 m away · Petrol stations
- Wild Bean Cafe - BP Hoon Hay, 97 m away · Cafés
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 268 m away · Pharmacies
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 287 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hoon Hay Rd, 142 m away · route 60
- Sparks Rd near Hoon Hay Rd, 197 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, 343 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 10 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 9 May 2026 Cnr Rydal and sparks
Water Leak, 27 Nov 2025 Water coming out of footpath outside entrance to Our Lasy of the Assumption school
- Abandoned Vehicle, 20 Jul 2024
Terrano has been left here for several weeks, parked partly on grass and partly in school 3 minute parking zone. Presume dumped as contains
Water Leak, 7 Mar 2024 Water coming up from under new patch of footpath
Water Leak, 2 Mar 2024
Water Leak, 29 Jan 2024 Major water leak coming out multiple places in foot path and along fence line
Water Leak, 29 Jan 2024 There appears to be a water main leak outside The Lady of Assumption School. The footpath has cracked and water is bubbling up through it
Water Leak, 29 Jan 2024
Water Leak, 26 Jan 2024 Water leaking onto footpath
Water Leak, 26 Jan 2024
Water Leak, 24 Jan 2024 Water is bubbling out of a crack in the footpath outside the property located at 87 Sparks Road. The area is not flooded but the grass berm
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
- 48 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 January 2024, most often water leak (9), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rydal Reserve, 119 m to its edge.