8 Gambia Street
3 council reports since September 2020, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 6 Gambia Street, 20 reports on file.
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
- Papanui Stream Esplanade, 207 m to the edge
- Erica Playground, 233 m to the edge · playground, 47 pieces
- Papanui Memorial Reserve, 367 m to the edge · Botanic
- Nightingale Reserve, 450 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Hotel Elms, 242 m away · Hotels
- Quality Hotel Elms, 277 m away · Hotels
- Fig Restaurant & Bar, 286 m away · Restaurants
- Tall Trees Motel, 293 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 326 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through PAPANUI, 476 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 PAPANUI ran about $572 a week, $22 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
- Accessibility, 1 Jun 2023
Noise - Construction, 23 Aug 2022 Nick Sullivan (Developer) has commenced building at 8 Gambia Street. I was not provided with any notification that building would commence.
Roading/Streets, 4 Sept 2020 Hi there. Just wondering why the street sweeper does not do the even number side of Gambia Street? It wasn't done in autumn and it wasn't do
Elsewhere on Gambia Street
- 6 Gambia Street, 20 reports
- 5 Gambia Street, 4 reports
- 6A Gambia Street, 2 reports
- 30 Gambia Street, 2 reports
- 2 Gambia Street, 2 reports
- 9 Gambia Street, 1 report
- 7 Gambia Street, 1 report
- 4 Gambia Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Gambia Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Papanui ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Gambia Street, the whole record → · Everything about PAPANUI → · 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 September 2020, most often roading/streets (1), noise - construction (1), accessibility (1).
PAPANUI, Christchurch, on Gambia Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Papanui Stream Esplanade, 207 m to its edge.

