2 Ruakaka Street
2 council reports since January 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 21B Ruakaka Street, 3 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
- Waitohi Reserve, 220 m to the edge · playground, 8 pieces
- Denton Park, 273 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Springmead Park, 357 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
- Goulding Playground, 432 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Hornby Domain, 487 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
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, 374 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Denton Park Motel, 277 m away · Motels
- NZ Safety Blackwoods, 318 m away · Clothing
- AA Vehicle Testing Christchurch, 350 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Seymour St, 217 m away · route 5, route 130
- Main South Rd near Seymour St, 231 m away · route 5, route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 462 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
- Water Leak, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 25 May 2025 Someone dumped a chilly bin by a power pole.
Water Leak, 15 Jan 2024 Corner of Raukaka and Seymour
Elsewhere on Ruakaka Street
- 21B Ruakaka Street, 3 reports
- 1A Ruakaka Street, 3 reports
- 18 Ruakaka Street, 3 reports
- 21 Ruakaka Street, 1 report
- 20 Ruakaka Street, 1 report
- 12 Ruakaka Street, 1 report
- 10 Ruakaka Street, 1 report
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.
Ruakaka 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
2 council reports on record since January 2024, most often water leak (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Ruakaka Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Waitohi Reserve, 220 m to its edge.