488 Hereford Street
6 council reports since March 2018, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 425 Hereford Street, 51 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
- Hereford Playground, 73 m to the edge · playground, 25 pieces
- Doris Lusk Corner, 211 m to the edge
- Buccleugh Reserve, 224 m to the edge
- Welcome Rest, 380 m to the edge
- Essex Reserve, 405 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
- MC Imports, 102 m away · Bottle stores
- AquaGym Swim Centre, 118 m away · Sports centres
- Cashel Court Motel, 164 m away · Motels
- Crisp & Vale Catering, 172 m away · Caterers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Stanmore Rd near Worcester St, 257 m away · route 60
- Gloucester St near England St, 267 m away · route 5
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Linwood, 168 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Linwood, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Linwood, 217 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Linwood, 226 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Linwood, 250 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Doris Lusk Corner plaque, 239 m away · 2024
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Linwood ran about $478 a week, $72 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 7 Jul 2025- Dumped Rubbish, 16 Jan 2023
Dumped Rubbish, 15 Sept 2022 Abandoned waterbed liner
Rubbish/Recycling, 29 Apr 2019
Rubbish/Recycling, 20 Jul 2018
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Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Mar 2018
Elsewhere on Hereford Street
- 425 Hereford Street, 51 reports
- 414 Hereford Street, 47 reports
- 422 Hereford Street, 40 reports
- 407 Hereford Street, 23 reports
- 497 Hereford Street, 21 reports
- 601 Hereford Street, 19 reports
- 516 Hereford Street, 19 reports
- 499 Hereford Street, 17 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hereford Street in 66 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Hereford Street, the whole record → · Everything about Linwood → · 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
6 council reports on record since March 2018, most often rubbish/recycling (3), dumped rubbish (3).
Linwood, Christchurch, on Hereford Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hereford Playground, 73 m to its edge.

