88 Sparks Road
9 council reports since February 2020, 9 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, 83 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 271 m to the edge
- Centennial Park, 304 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Gainsborough Reserve, 444 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, 111 m away · Petrol stations
- Wild Bean Cafe - BP Hoon Hay, 113 m away · Cafés
- Hoon Hay Pharmacy, 257 m away · Pharmacies
- The Hoon Hay Medical Centre, 277 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, 340 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 9 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Sign, 14 Oct 2025 Casualty of the recent road works in the area.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 29 Sept 2025 Graffiti on front of cabinet LS2594.
Damaged Street Sign, 1 Apr 2025
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Dec 2024 Graffiti on unknown box
Graffiti somewhere else, 31 Aug 2024
Hazard, vehicle, 22 Jul 2024 Same car seen repeatedly parked on yellow lines at north end rydal street, hoon hay at school pick up time 3pm, obstructs bikes and cars ent
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 22 Jul 2024 Spark road across from school entrance hoon hay one sprayed marking white spray
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 29 May 2024 Rydal near sparks
Roading/Streets, 14 Feb 2020
repair is breaking up again exposing dangerous lip
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
9 council reports on record since February 2020, most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2), damaged street sign (2), roading/streets (1).
Hoon Hay, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rydal Reserve, 83 m to its edge.