1 Somes Road
5 council reports since November 2019, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 18 Somes Road, 7 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Shackleton Reserve, 481 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery, 180 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- 27seconds, 385 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- This Rest Area Is Dedicated to the Memory of Those, 250 m away ·
THIS REST AREA IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED IN THE 1919 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC
· 2008
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 Lyttelton ran about $600 a week, $50 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 16 Aug 2024 Griffiti on wall on water tank
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 25 Apr 2024 Retaining wall next to road, please remove offensive graffiti
- Damaged Road, 10 Jul 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 10 Jul 2023
Roading/Streets, 24 Nov 2019
Elsewhere on Somes Road
- 18 Somes Road, 7 reports
- 15 Somes Road, 4 reports
- 17 Somes Road, 3 reports
- 6 Somes Road, 1 report
- 2 Somes Road, 1 report
- 14 Somes Road, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula 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.
Somes Road, the whole record → · Everything about Lyttelton → · 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 November 2019, most often street gutters / storm water (1), roading/streets (1), graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge (1).
Lyttelton, Christchurch, on Somes Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Shackleton Reserve, 481 m to its edge.

