249 Main South Road
6 council reports since September 2016, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 442 Main South Road, 80 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting, 14 Henry Wigram Drive (203m)
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
- Wigram Village Green, 271 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Rollerdrome Reserve, 284 m to the edge · Sports ground · playground, 4 pieces
- Vickerys Reserve, 330 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Caudron Reserve, 472 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mobil Wigram, 67 m away · Petrol stations
- BP, 86 m away · Petrol stations
- Kings Swim School, 124 m away · Sports centres
- Chipmunks Playland & Cafe Wigram, 130 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Springs Rd near Henry Wigram Pl, 126 m away · route 80, route 100
- Springs Rd near Henry Wigram Pl, 168 m away · route 80, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
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
- Graffiti, 4
- Water Leak, 1
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 11 Jun 2024 Large pothole / rippling in the pavement adjacent to Mobil.
- Water Leak, 26 Jul 2023
Graffiti, 10 Nov 2021Graffiti, 30 Jan 2020
traffic control box 247 Main South Rd
Graffiti, 19 Jan 2017
Graffiti, 2 Sept 2016
Elsewhere on Main South Road
- 442 Main South Road, 80 reports
- 383 Main South Road, 26 reports
- 446 Main South Road, 21 reports
- 395 Main South Road, 20 reports
- 273 Main South Road, 19 reports
- 345 Main South Road, 13 reports
- 418 Main South Road, 12 reports
- 343 Main South Road, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main South Road in 112 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 27 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.
Main South 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
6 council reports on record since September 2016, most often graffiti (4), water leak (1), pavement - damaged (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former RNZAF Station Wigram No 1 Officers' Mess, Brevet Garden and Setting.
Wigram Village Green, 271 m to its edge, 4 ha.

