13 Tower Street
6 council reports since December 2018, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 29 Tower Street, 11 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
- Helmore Park, 134 m to the edge · playground, 16 pieces
- Goulding Playground, 213 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Denton Park, 427 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 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, 339 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Hornby Veterinary Centre, 55 m away · Vets
- Super Liquor, 69 m away · Bottle stores
- The Venue Music Bar, 78 m away · Venues & events
- The Equestrian Hotel, 85 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Amyes Rd near Shands Rd, 133 m away · route 125
- Amyes Rd near Shands Rd, 184 m away · route 125
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 138 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 211 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 319 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 492 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 499 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 ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 18 Mar 2026 overgrown vegetation and litter. looks disgusting and encroaching on the footpath. Not the first time this has happened. Owner of this land
Water Leak, 12 Sept 2025 Last Tuesday, contractor bored hole in grass burm, vibrations look to have ruptured water pipe, continuous flow from drain down gutter. Coul
Overgrown Vegetation, 16 May 2025 This was reported by me on 28th March ref 6101395 and I was advised work to be carried out by early May. It is now 16th May and this has not
Overgrown Vegetation, 28 Mar 2025 This corner of the street is disgusting. Overgrown weeds need cutting down and tidy
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Jul 2024 Old heater
Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Dec 2018
Mattresses in carpark
Elsewhere on Tower Street
- 29 Tower Street, 11 reports
- 31A Tower Street, 7 reports
- 32 Tower Street, 6 reports
- 8 Tower Street, 5 reports
- 39 Tower Street, 5 reports
- 27 Tower Street, 4 reports
- 1 Tower Street, 4 reports
- 33 Tower Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Tower Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Tower Street, 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
6 council reports on record since December 2018, most often overgrown vegetation (3), water leak (1), rubbish/recycling (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Tower Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Helmore Park, 134 m to its edge.