255 Shands Road
8 council reports since August 2017, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Shands Road.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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
- Shands Reserve, 438 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby South, 2 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hornby South ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti somewhere else, 23 Nov 2024
Overgrown Vegetation, 22 Jan 2024 Bearm is overgrowm and fire hazard
- Overgrown Vegetation, 30 Nov 2023
- Roading/Streets, 10 Jun 2022
Lanes merging sign not installed/missing in northbound direction since recent roadwork completion
Roading/Streets, 10 May 2021 Lots of loose shingle on walkway cycleway from Watties to Marshes Road flyover,
Water Supply, 15 May 2019
- Roading/Streets, 15 Jan 2019
HUGE pothole 1m in diameter currently marked with a truck tyre and solitary cone. Dangerous hole and people crossing centerline to avoid it
Roading/Streets, 3 Aug 2017
Bad potholes
Elsewhere on Shands Road
- 95 Shands Road, 7 reports
- 102 Shands Road, 5 reports
- 85-95 Shands Road, 4 reports
- 166 Shands Road, 4 reports
- 374 Shands Road, 3 reports
- 206 Shands Road, 3 reports
- 132 Shands Road, 3 reports
- 330 Shands Road, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Shands Road in 35 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 people killed, 7 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Shands Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hornby South → · 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
8 council reports on record since August 2017, most often roading/streets (4), overgrown vegetation (2), water supply (1).
Hornby South, Christchurch, on Shands Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Shands Reserve, 438 m to its edge, 1 ha.


