49E Hands Road
2 council reports since September 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Hands Road.
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
- Marylands Reserve, 261 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Pulse Cafe, 174 m away · Cafés
- CQ Print, 187 m away · Printers & copy shops
- Habesha Restaurant and Cafe, 188 m away · Cafés
- Coastal Espresso, 211 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Birmingham Dr near Halls Pl, 244 m away · route 140
- Birmingham Dr near Halls Pl, 264 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Middleton, 203 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Middleton, 215 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Middleton, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Middleton, 377 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Apr 2025 Graffiti on roadside cabinet
Water Leak, 6 Sept 2024 Water coming up through pavement
Elsewhere on Hands Road
- 9 Hands Road, 2 reports
- 7 Hands Road, 2 reports
- 43 Hands Road, 2 reports
- 37 Hands Road, 2 reports
- 2 Hands Road, 2 reports
- 6 Hands Road, 1 report
- 39 Hands Road, 1 report
- 38 Hands Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hands Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Hands Road, the whole record → · Everything about Middleton → · 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
2 council reports on record since September 2024, most often water leak (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Middleton, Christchurch, on Hands Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Marylands Reserve, 261 m to its edge, 6 ha.

