17 Somes Road
3 council reports since April 2023, 2 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, 387 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, 313 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
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
- Water Leak, 1
- Pothole, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 18 Sept 2026 A mattress has been dumped at the bottom of the major Hornbrook track car park
Water Leak, 25 Aug 2026 Water leak on Somes rd. Been leaking for months!
- Pothole, 28 Apr 2023
Elsewhere on Somes Road
- 18 Somes Road, 7 reports
- 1 Somes Road, 5 reports
- 15 Somes Road, 4 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
3 council reports on record since April 2023, most often water leak (1), pothole (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Lyttelton, Christchurch, on Somes Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Shackleton Reserve, 387 m to its edge.

