7 Symes Road
3 council reports since October 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Symes Road, 5 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
- Vickerys Reserve, 169 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mi Woollies Sheepskin & Footwear Factory Shop, 71 m away · Clothing
- Cameron Japanese Family Restaurant, 176 m away · Restaurants
- Archives New Zealand / Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, 236 m away · Government
- Hillyers of Lincoln, 236 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Harvard Ave, 149 m away · route 5, route 80, route 100
- Harvard Ave and Main South Rd, 201 m away · route 5, route 80, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 235 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, 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
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 28 Aug 2025 Cars parking on turf and causing damage
Damaged Road, 1 Apr 2024 Very deep pothole at corner of Hayton Rd and Symes Rd. Made a loud bang when we drove through it, probably enough to do some serious damage.
General Request, 16 Oct 2020 Street light is out of action.
Elsewhere on Symes Road
- 2 Symes Road, 5 reports
- 3 Symes Road, 2 reports
- 4A Symes Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Symes Road in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Symes 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 October 2020, most often hazard, vehicle (1), general request (1), damaged road (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Symes Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Vickerys Reserve, 169 m to its edge.