8 Smarts Road
10 council reports since January 2022, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Smarts Road, 29 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
- Kyle Park, 118 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 pieces
- Denton Park, 347 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Goulding Playground, 486 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Advantage, 47 m away · Tyre shops
- Mister Mechanical, 55 m away · Car repair
- Midas Hornby, 64 m away · Car repair
- Hornby Working Men's Club & MSA, 138 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- The Hub Hornby, 217 m away · route 5, route 130, route 140
- Main South Rd near Tower St, 319 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 79 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 217 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 238 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 274 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 283 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
Photographed here 9 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 21 Sept 2025 Pothole
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 5 Apr 2025
Water Leak, 23 Mar 2025 Leaning from previous path repair
Poles and Signage - General, 3 Dec 2024 Might it be possible to have a sign at this intersection directing motorists to the new Matatiki Centre? Smarts Rd forks here; both forks a
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Oct 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 26 Sept 2024 8 Smarts Rd - telecommunications box
Graffiti somewhere else, 22 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 22 Apr 2024- Graffiti, 30 Sept 2022
Water Leak, 19 Jan 2022 Overflowing water main
Elsewhere on Smarts Road
- 25 Smarts Road, 29 reports
- 13 Smarts Road, 11 reports
- 21 Smarts Road, 8 reports
- 1 Smarts Road, 8 reports
- 18 Smarts Road, 7 reports
- 19 Smarts Road, 6 reports
- 18A Smarts Road, 6 reports
- 5 Smarts Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Smarts Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Smarts 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
10 council reports on record since January 2022, most often graffiti somewhere else (4), water leak (2), roads - general (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Smarts Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Kyle Park, 118 m to its edge, 9 ha.