8 Tower Street
5 council reports since February 2017, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 29 Tower Street, 11 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
- Helmore Park, 170 m to the edge · playground, 16 pieces
- Goulding Playground, 181 m to the edge · playground, 39 pieces
- Denton Park, 391 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Kyle Park, 482 m to the edge · Sports ground · 9 ha · playground, 11 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, 306 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Venue Music Bar, 47 m away · Venues & events
- Super Liquor, 52 m away · Bottle stores
- The Equestrian Hotel, 55 m away · Bars & pubs
- Hornby Veterinary Centre, 66 m away · Vets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 101 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 184 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 291 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 456 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Hornby, 462 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 8 Nov 2024 On next drive way gutters need cleaning and under new driveway to new shops many thanks
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 8 Nov 2024 Near entrance to new shop in Tiwer St Hornby, needs cleaned out of dirt, stones etc urgently many thanks
Flooding, 20 Jun 2024 Entrance to super liquor Tower st Hornby and New buildings
Rubbish/Recycling, 20 Dec 2018
Super liquor putting g there carton bins etc where it should not be in a parking zone
Graffiti, 9 Feb 2017
Elsewhere on Tower Street
- 29 Tower Street, 11 reports
- 31A Tower Street, 7 reports
- 32 Tower Street, 6 reports
- 13 Tower Street, 6 reports
- 39 Tower Street, 5 reports
- 27 Tower Street, 4 reports
- 1 Tower Street, 4 reports
- 33 Tower Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Tower Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Tower Street, 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
5 council reports on record since February 2017, most often street gutters / storm water (2), rubbish/recycling (1), graffiti (1).
Hornby, Christchurch, on Tower Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Helmore Park, 170 m to its edge.


