2 Finsbury Street
4 council reports since May 2019, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Finsbury Street.
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
- Lomax Reserve, 121 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Leslie Park, 274 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 8 pieces
- Springmead Park, 343 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
- Moffett Reserve, 406 m to the edge · playground, 9 pieces
- Gilberthorpes Reserve, 470 m to the edge · playground, 1 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Twins Chinese Takeaway, 299 m away · Fast food
- Islington Fish & Chips, 345 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waterloo Rd near Wilson St, 287 m away · route 5
- Halswell Junction Rd near Foremans Rd, 394 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 2 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 343 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Islington ran about $550 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Feb 2024
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Feb 2024- Dumped Rubbish, 3 May 2023
Graffiti, 26 May 2019
cnr Finsbury St and WATERLOO Rd
Elsewhere on Finsbury Street
- 23A Finsbury Street, 2 reports
- 6 Finsbury Street, 1 report
- 23 Finsbury Street, 1 report
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.
Finsbury Street, the whole record → · Everything about Islington → · 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
4 council reports on record since May 2019, most often overgrown vegetation (2), graffiti (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Islington, Christchurch, on Finsbury Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Lomax Reserve, 121 m to its edge.

