2 Hood Street
10 council reports since September 2019, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 17 Hood Street, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
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
- New Brighton Beach, 23 m to the edge · Regional · 10 ha
- New Brighton Beach Developed, 35 m to the edge · Regional · 2 ha · playground, 34 pieces
- New Brighton Mall Playground, 261 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Withells Island Reserve, 309 m to the edge · 4 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- New Brighton Library, 258 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- New Brighton Bowling Club, 174 m away · Clubs
- Super Liquor, 181 m away · Bottle stores
- Ezee Mart, 183 m away · Dairies & convenience
- South of India, 230 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Oram Ave near Hood St, 139 m away · route 60
- Oram Ave near Hood St, 145 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 499 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 Seat Is Dedicated to / Jim & Yvonne Read, 136 m away ·
This seat is Dedicated to / Jim & Yvonne Read / in appreciation of their service / to the
· 2004 - This Seat Is Dedicated to / Frances M. Sands, 143 m away ·
This seat is Dedicated to / Frances M. Sands / In Memory of her service to / the New Brigh
· 2003 - This Seat Is Dedicated to / Kempton H. Jervous-Chenery, 150 m away ·
This seat is Dedicated to / Kempton H. Jervous-Chenery / In Memory of his service to / the
· 2005
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 New Brighton ran about $520 a week, $30 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
- Hazard, vehicle, 19 May 2025
Apartments cnr Hood Street and Marine Parade. Cars parked over cnrs of both. Very dangerous. Yellow lines needed urgently
Water Leak, 14 May 2025 U9232 MARINE PARADE TOBY BOX KEAKING
Hazard, vehicle, 2 May 2025 KS9763 corner of hood st and marine parade. Parking on the road
Hazard, vehicle, 22 Mar 2025 Creating blind spot for those turning. Car over edge of parking.
Hazard, vehicle, 14 Mar 2025 Parked camper van on wrong side of the road taking up the apartment complex car parks. Camping grounds further down marine parade so unsure
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Mar 2025 A bed head and footboard, and a TV dumped on the grass outside the apartments on the corner of Hood St and Marine parade.
Water Leak, 19 Dec 2023 The water main is flooding and overflowing onto the grass causing it to be very muddy.
- Roading/Streets, 12 Mar 2020
Street light not working.
Roading/Streets, 4 Dec 2019
Good to see the fencing being picked up off the long stretch of footpath it was covering, but the fencing on Hood St is well over the prope
Rubbish/Recycling, 6 Sept 2019
dumped large items and rubbish
Elsewhere on Hood Street
- 17 Hood Street, 16 reports
- 20 Hood Street, 9 reports
- 1 Hood Street, 6 reports
- 43 Hood Street, 5 reports
- 27 Hood Street, 5 reports
- 15A Hood Street, 5 reports
- 12 Hood Street, 5 reports
- 42 Hood Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hood Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Coastal ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Hood Street, the whole record → · Everything about New Brighton → · 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
10 council reports on record since September 2019, most often hazard, vehicle (4), water leak (2), roading/streets (2).
New Brighton, Christchurch, on Hood Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, New Brighton War Memorial & Amphitheatre.
New Brighton Beach, 23 m to its edge, 10 ha.





