272 Waterloo Road
6 council reports since January 2022, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 197 Waterloo Road, 50 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, you are in it · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Denton Park, 164 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Gilberthorpes Reserve, 260 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
- Wycola Park, 462 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
- Cheeky Sparrow - The Hub Hornby, 285 m away · Fast food
- Rebel Sport, 304 m away · Sports shops
- Pita Pit - Hornby, 308 m away · Fast food
- Toyworld, 318 m away · Toy shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gilberthorpes Rd near Gregory Ave, 291 m away · route 130
- Gilberthorpes Rd near Waterloo Rd, 300 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 11 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 153 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 210 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 212 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 367 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
- Dumped Rubbish, 2
- Park - General Request, 1
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 18 Jan 2026 Dumped green waste and some blue rubber gloves
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 16 Nov 2025 Graffiti on wall
Facility - General Request, 20 Sept 2025 Stormwater sump grate in Kyle Park insecure needs fixing please.
Park - General Request, 14 Jan 2024 Gate needs securing as is normally lockwd to stip peiple entering the asbestos area
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 3 Jan 2022 utility box opposite 274 Waterloo road
Elsewhere on Waterloo Road
- 197 Waterloo Road, 50 reports
- 190a Waterloo Road, 25 reports
- 180 Waterloo Road, 24 reports
- 197-239 Waterloo Road, 15 reports
- 260 Waterloo Road, 14 reports
- 241 Waterloo Road, 14 reports
- 79 Waterloo Road, 13 reports
- 35 Waterloo Road, 13 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waterloo Road in 40 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 4 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.
Waterloo 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 January 2022, most often dumped rubbish (2), park - general request (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Waterloo Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Kyle Park, the address is inside it, 9 ha.




