714 Main South Road
4 council reports since August 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, 300 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
- Z Templeton, 44 m away · Petrol stations
- The Bottle-O Templeton, 128 m away · Bottle stores
- NPD, 182 m away · Petrol stations
- Little Sister Cafe, 249 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Temp - Waterloo Rd near Islington Ave, 256 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Islington, 99 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
- Pothole, 3
- Water Leak, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 9 Sept 2026 Leaking water meter or rpz is constantly dribbling along berm into neighbouring property
Pothole, 9 Jun 2026 pot holes at exit of Z Templeton
Pothole, 21 May 2026 pot hole reappeared after "fixed" a month ago
Pothole, 26 Aug 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
4 council reports on record since August 2022, most often pothole (3), water leak (1).
Islington, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Islington Reserve, 300 m to its edge.



