409 Main South Road
7 council reports since December 2021, 5 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, 119 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Denton Park, 215 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Kyle Park, 321 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Helmore Park, 358 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, 186 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Mons Royale Outlet, 3 m away · Clothing
- Curry Garden, 20 m away · Restaurants
- Spice Bazaar, 34 m away · Food
- Under Armour, 41 m away · Clothing
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Carmen Rd, 61 m away · route 5, route 125, route 130, route 140
- The Hub Hornby, 169 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, 83 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 136 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 157 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 268 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 274 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The remembered names nearby
- 'Pathways Home' a Riccarton, 243 m away ·
'PATHWAYS HOME' A RICCARTON/WIGRAM COMMUNITY BOARD PUBLIC ART PROJECT ARTIST JUDITH STREAT
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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 5 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 14 Jan 2026 Drains are blocked. Following the rain this morning, The drains are blocked outside the centre and need to he uncleared. This is causing h
Hazard, vehicle, 8 Nov 2025 Parking across footpath so we pedestrians walk when there are free car parks
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Nov 2024 Sinking areas in the refuge. Council pavement.
Damaged Street Sign, 9 May 2024 Sign is not visible as it has been rotated in a direction where no traffic comes from.
- Damaged Street Sign, 18 Oct 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 18 Oct 2023
Graffiti, 3 Dec 2021 Near Spice Bazaar, Main South Rd - Graffiti on Genesis gas cylinder storage unit
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
7 council reports on record since December 2021, most often street gutters / storm water (2), damaged street sign (2), pavement - damaged (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Goulding Playground, 119 m to its edge.




