18 Basil Place
8 council reports since April 2022, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Basil Place.
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
- Drayton Reserve, 95 m to the edge · 9 ha
- Glenstrae Road Reserve, 101 m to the edge
- Mccormacks Bay, 129 m to the edge · Sports ground · 22 ha · playground, 41 pieces
- Balmoral Hill Reserve, 272 m to the edge · playground, 8 pieces
- Glenstrae Reserve, 402 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Mccormacks Bay Rd near Maffeys Rd, 263 m away · route 140
- McCormacks Bay Rd & Maffeys Rd WB, 282 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Memory of Geoffrey Courthorpe Salt, 110 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF GEOFFREY COURTHORPE SALT WHO ESTABLISHED AND LOVINGLY CARED FOR THIS RESERVE
· 2009 - In Proud Memory of My Son Steven Clive Taylor 1959 – 1982, 191 m away ·
In proud memory of my son Steven Clive Taylor 1959 – 1982 Killed in Fiordland while attemp
· 2009
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 Mount Pleasant ran about $700 a week, $150 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 22 Sept 2025 Broken green bin. Health and safety hazard. Keep getting caught and scratched on it also loosing green waste contents
Abandoned Vehicle, 3 Jun 2025 Abandoned car - on road costs expired April 2024. Parked too close to driveway also
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 30 Apr 2025 Blocked drains all along basil place
Water Leak, 21 Dec 2024 Neighbours water main box leaking 20 basil place mccormacks bay
Rubbish and Bins - General, 4 Mar 2024 Red bin not emptied, again!
Rubbish and Bins - General, 19 Feb 2024 Red Bin not emptied at 18 basil place
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 21 Mar 2023
- Rubbish/Recycling, 4 Apr 2022
Red bin not emptied
Elsewhere on Basil Place
- 20 Basil Place, 3 reports
- 31 Basil Place, 2 reports
- 24 Basil Place, 2 reports
- 5 Basil Place, 1 report
- 4 Basil Place, 1 report
- 39 Basil Place, 1 report
- 35–41 Basil Place, 1 report
- 33A Basil Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Basil Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote 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.
Basil Place, the whole record → · Everything about Mount Pleasant → · 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
8 council reports on record since April 2022, most often rubbish and bins - general (4), water leak (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Mount Pleasant, Christchurch, on Basil Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Drayton Reserve, 95 m to its edge, 9 ha.





