8 Virginia Lane
2 council reports since April 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 10 Virginia Lane, 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
- Drayton Reserve, 16 m to the edge · 9 ha
- Glenstrae Reserve, 242 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Glenstrae Road Reserve, 268 m to the edge
- Parnham Reserve, 286 m to the edge · playground, 14 pieces
- Mccormacks Bay, 371 m to the edge · Sports ground · 22 ha · playground, 41 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
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.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 16 Nov 2025 As previous snap send solve - metal hopper left on pathway
Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Apr 2025 Walking track needs weed eating hasn’t been done for a long time people come up here and don’t know where to follow track
Elsewhere on Virginia Lane
- 10 Virginia Lane, 7 reports
- 9 Virginia Lane, 4 reports
- 7 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
- 5 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
- 15 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
- 14 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
- 12–15 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
- 11 Virginia Lane, 2 reports
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.
Virginia Lane, 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
2 council reports on record since April 2025, most often pavement - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Mount Pleasant, Christchurch, on Virginia Lane.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Drayton Reserve, 16 m to its edge, 9 ha.