18 Smarts Road
7 council reports since June 2015, 6 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, 19 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Denton Park, 390 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Carmen Reserve, 448 m to the edge · Botanic · 1 ha · playground, 26 pieces
- Wycola Park, 453 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 63 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mister Mechanical, 91 m away · Car repair
- Matatiki: Hornby Centre, 98 m away · Library
- Liquid Self-Service Laundromat, 111 m away · Laundromats
- Midas Hornby, 125 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Carmen Rd near Waterloo Rd, 263 m away · route 125, route 140
- The Hub Hornby, 332 m away · route 5, route 130, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 87 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 122 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 189 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 191 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 211 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Nov 2025
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 21 Nov 2025 Tag on door at Fleet Service Ctre Smarts Road
Dumped Rubbish, 10 Mar 2025 Pile of rubbish dumped opposite Matatiki Center carpark
- Parks, 21 Feb 2019
Light out at end of carpark near gym tree
Rubbish/Recycling, 14 Mar 2018
Thick broken glass at the bottom
Graffiti, 31 Jul 2017
SE corner Leslie behind fenced off area
Roading/Streets, 11 Jun 2015
Pothole, intersection of smarts and waterloo road
Elsewhere on Smarts Road
- 25 Smarts Road, 29 reports
- 13 Smarts Road, 11 reports
- 8 Smarts Road, 10 reports
- 21 Smarts Road, 8 reports
- 1 Smarts Road, 8 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
7 council reports on record since June 2015, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), rubbish/recycling (1), roading/streets (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Smarts Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Kyle Park, 19 m to its edge, 9 ha.