251 Main South Road
3 council reports since February 2025, 3 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 (204m)
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
- Rollerdrome Reserve, 245 m to the edge · Sports ground · playground, 4 pieces
- Wigram Village Green, 256 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Vickerys Reserve, 368 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Caudron Reserve, 442 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, 107 m away · Petrol stations
- BP, 117 m away · Petrol stations
- PB Tech, 133 m away · Computers
- Kings Swim School, 141 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Springs Rd near Henry Wigram Pl, 97 m away · route 80, route 100
- Springs Rd near Henry Wigram Pl, 137 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 12 Mar 2026 Low overhanging tree branches, limiting access to pedestrians, near to traffic lights at Springs and Main South Road intersection.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 16 Nov 2025 Graffiti on sign board
Road Signage, 2 Feb 2025 Steel band on Springs Road name blade broken
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
3 council reports on record since February 2025, most often trees - general (1), road signage (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (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.
Rollerdrome Reserve, 245 m to its edge.