393A Main South Road

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

• Goulding Playground, 178 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
• Helmore Park, 271 m to the edge · playground, 16 pieces
• Denton Park, 330 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
• Kyle Park, 378 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces

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, 285 m away · Library

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• Banh Mi Factory Hornby, 2 m away · Restaurants
• KB's Express, 31 m away · Business
• Nanas Indian Cuisine, 40 m away · Restaurants
• Smiths City, 40 m away · Department stores

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Main South Rd near Tower St, 162 m away · route 5
• Main South Rd near Carmen Rd, 174 m away · route 5, route 125, route 130, route 140

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Hornby, 36 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hornby, 81 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hornby, 271 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hornby, 364 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Hornby, 372 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

• Graffiti, 7
• Roading/Streets, 1
• Road Blockage, 1
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
• Damaged Street Sign, 1

Photographed here 8 on record

more photographs
on the Hornby wall →

What’s on record

• Road Blockage, 22 May 2026 Dropped headlight or taillight in middle of road
• Damaged Street Sign, 20 May 2026 Sign flattened by railway line main south / shands road
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Oct 2025 Tagging on the gate and a fence at the back of the Branston shops on main south road.
• Graffiti, 17 Apr 2023
• Graffiti, 14 Apr 2023
• Graffiti, 23 Mar 2022 The graffiti is where the arrows point. It is light greenish-yellow spray paint colour. This is an older photo to illustrate where to find i
• Graffiti, 23 Mar 2022 The 1st is on Ross gult, lock,smith, The other oppsit
• Roading/Streets, 12 Oct 2021 Fallen tree
• Graffiti, 12 Mar 2021 Already done 12-3-2021 393a Main South Road 372083
• Graffiti, 9 Feb 2021
• Graffiti, 9 Feb 2021

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 crashes it names, each one →

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.