687 Main South Road
5 council reports since June 2022, 4 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, 60 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, 61 m away · Cafés
- Thirsty Liquor Islington, 93 m away · Bottle stores
- The Swamp Tavern, 97 m away · Bars & pubs
- NPD, 102 m away · Petrol stations
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Temp - Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave, 160 m away · route 5
- Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave, 310 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 162 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 4 on record
What’s on record
- Roads - General, 18 Dec 2025
The manhole covers outside our property have become extremely loud and loose- I understand this has been reported a number of times but noth
Water Leak, 20 Jun 2022
Water Leak, 18 Jun 2022 Have reported this issue but didn’t realise there was a specific water and sewer section. It is getting more urgent. There is now water comi
Roading/Streets, 18 Jun 2022 Water coming up through hole in pavement. More holes have appeared today. The storm water drain is filling up near our property even without
Water Leak, 17 Jun 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
- 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
5 council reports on record since June 2022, most often water leak (3), roads - general (1), roading/streets (1).
Islington, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Islington Reserve, 60 m to its edge.