72 Shands Road
6 council reports since February 2025, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 18 Shands Road, 20 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
- Waitohi Reserve, 327 m to the edge · playground, 8 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- NZ Safety Blackwoods, 44 m away · Clothing
- SaveMart, 185 m away · Clothing
- AA Vehicle Testing Christchurch, 327 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 6 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
- Water Leak, 4
- Road Signage, 2
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 3 Jan 2026 Sign on its side been knocked over
Road Signage, 23 Nov 2025 Sign pole unearthed
Water Leak, 14 Mar 2025 Water seeping up through road surface.
- Water Leak, 13 Mar 2025
Water leak on road.
Water Leak, 2 Mar 2025 Water weeping from under road seal. Roughly at edge of Northbound cycle lane and Northbound vehicle lane.
Water Leak, 26 Feb 2025 Water main leak erupting through roadway.
Elsewhere on Shands Road
- 18 Shands Road, 20 reports
- 21 Shands Road, 16 reports
- 34 Shands Road, 12 reports
- 40 Shands Road, 9 reports
- 6 Shands Road, 6 reports
- 38 Shands Road, 6 reports
- 51 Shands Road, 5 reports
- 11 Shands Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Shands Road in 58 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 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.
Shands 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 February 2025, most often water leak (4), road signage (2).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Shands Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Waitohi Reserve, 327 m to its edge.