684 Main South Road
10 council reports since December 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
- Islington Reserve, 117 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
- Little Sister Cafe, 29 m away · Cafés
- NPD, 45 m away · Petrol stations
- Thirsty Liquor Islington, 58 m away · Bottle stores
- The Swamp Tavern, 67 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Temp - Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave, 92 m away · route 5
- Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave, 266 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 93 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
Street Cleaning, 18 Aug 2026 looks like spill from a truck or conc truck turning into Pounds Rd from main south. and dirt or cement went on to the road, needs sweeping
Road Signage, 3 Jul 2026 Dumped STMS signage by railway crossing on pound road.
Traffic Signals, 10 Dec 2025 the lights at the pound road/ main south road intersection are green for only 6 sec allowing only 2 cars per phase to enter main south road
Traffic Signals, 9 Dec 2025 lights running very slow, truck and trailer did not have enough time to run through lights. pound road onto SH1 main south road
- Pothole, 24 May 2025
Pothole in the south bound lane of Main South Road at the intersection of Pound Road. The Pothole is about the size of a bread and butter pl
Pavement - General, 10 Mar 2025 Plants 2 footpath over footpath
Water Pollution - Sediment, 25 Nov 2024 Silty water going into stormwater city care contractor
- Overgrown Vegetation, 16 Mar 2023
- Road Signage, 9 Mar 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 18 Dec 2022
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
- 677 Main South Road, 8 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
10 council reports on record since December 2022, most often traffic signals (2), road signage (2), overgrown vegetation (2).
Islington, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Islington Reserve, 117 m to its edge.