620 Main South Road
8 council reports since September 2022, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 729 Main South Road, 25 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
- Foremans Reserve, 225 m to the edge
- Islington Reserve, 497 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Foley Trucks, 177 m away · Car dealers
- UCC Motorhomes and Caravans, 203 m away · Caravan
- Fridays Sorted, 241 m away · Business
- Crown Relocations, 243 m away · Moving Company
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 150 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 26 Apr 2026 ive counted 9 pot holes in this bit of road, with a few more just starting.
- Pothole, 24 May 2025
Pothole in the south bound lane on Main South Road at the intersection of Foremans Road. The Pothole is the size of a bread and butter plate
- Road Signage, 21 Jan 2025
70km sign on the main south road heading to Hornby is twisted back behind the lamppost. On Main south Road opp Halls Transport
Pothole, 5 Nov 2024 Various pot holes on Foremans Rd outside Halls
Damaged Street Sign, 7 Oct 2024 70kph sign falling off pole
Damaged Road, 25 Sept 2024 I counted 15 potholes along this road.
Damaged Road, 24 May 2024 I hat counted another 7 pot hole on this piece of road
Damaged Road, 9 Sept 2022 There's no footpath so I need to use road on my mobility scooter, some of these holes nearly bury me.thanks
Elsewhere on Main South Road
- 729 Main South Road, 25 reports
- 521 Main South Road, 23 reports
- 550 Main South Road, 19 reports
- 531 Main South Road, 14 reports
- 679 Main South Road, 12 reports
- 554 Main South Road, 12 reports
- 533 Main South Road, 11 reports
- 684 Main South Road, 10 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main South Road in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 2 seriously hurt.
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.
Main South Road, 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
8 council reports on record since September 2022, most often pothole (3), damaged road (3), road signage (1).
Islington, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Foremans Reserve, 225 m to its edge.