13 Smarts Road
11 council reports since August 2018, 11 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Smarts Road, 29 reports on file.
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
- Kyle Park, 140 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Denton Park, 303 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Goulding Playground, 450 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Hornby Library, 491 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Advantage, 89 m away · Tyre shops
- Hornby Working Men's Club & MSA, 99 m away · Clubs
- Mister Mechanical, 101 m away · Car repair
- Midas Hornby, 113 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- The Hub Hornby, 173 m away · route 5, route 130, route 140
- The Hub Hornby, 291 m away · route 5, route 125, route 130, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 110 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 214 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 239 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 304 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 305 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hornby ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 11 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 13 Oct 2026 Not parked 6m from intersection however road is marked for parking?
Pavement - General, 25 Mar 2026 Panel repair shop consistently blocking foot path. Hazard to as is a school zone also. Company is Glory Panel & Paint.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 Mar 2026 Graffiti on the back of a structure kn the Hornby Workingmens Club carpark
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 Feb 2026 Hornby Club van storage shed (facing railway line)
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jan 2025 Dumped at capital smart, it does not belong to the business
Graffiti somewhere else, 18 Dec 2024 Back of shed facing railway line
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Sept 2024 Back wall of the warehouse building. Hornby
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Sept 2024 Americold fence.
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Sept 2024 On back of building Hornby club bus garage
Graffiti somewhere else, 28 Aug 2024 8 Smarts rd
Flooding, 4 Aug 2018
This is in Denton park at the back of the grandstand. Not carmen rd as GPS says. Must be a broken pipe. It is next to pathway
Elsewhere on Smarts Road
- 25 Smarts Road, 29 reports
- 8 Smarts Road, 10 reports
- 21 Smarts Road, 8 reports
- 1 Smarts Road, 8 reports
- 18 Smarts Road, 7 reports
- 19 Smarts Road, 6 reports
- 18A Smarts Road, 6 reports
- 5 Smarts Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Smarts Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Smarts Road, the whole record → · Everything about Hornby → · 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 August 2018, most often graffiti somewhere else (5), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), pavement - general (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Smarts Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Kyle Park, 140 m to its edge, 9 ha.









