402E Main South Road
9 council reports since October 2024, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 442 Main South Road, 80 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
- Goulding Playground, 191 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Denton Park, 287 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Kyle Park, 314 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Helmore Park, 334 m to the edge · playground, 16 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, 276 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- KFC, 22 m away · Fast food
- ANZ, 46 m away · Banks
- The Crank House Bicycle Studio, 54 m away · Bike shops
- Westpac, 54 m away · Banks
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Carmen Rd, 133 m away · route 5, route 125, route 130, route 140
- The Hub Hornby, 148 m away · route 5, route 130, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 306 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 314 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
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Abandoned Vehicle, 1 Jun 2025 Abandoned, damaged car on corner of Main South and Carmen Roads, outside KFC on footpath.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Feb 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 18 Dec 2024 Lights box near kfc Hornby. Previously reported, please address.
Graffiti somewhere else, 7 Dec 2024 Graffiti on utility box
Graffiti somewhere else, 22 Nov 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 16 Nov 2024 Graffiti on NZTA signal box
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 27 Oct 2024
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Oct 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 19 Oct 2024 Over a week. Outside KFC main south road/ Carmen
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
9 council reports on record since October 2024, most often graffiti somewhere else (3), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (3), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Goulding Playground, 191 m to its edge.








