23 Essex Street
6 council reports since November 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 41 Essex Street, 21 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
- Raglan Reserve, 102 m to the edge
- Worcester Pump Station Park, 320 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Essex Reserve, 427 m to the edge
- Doris Lusk Corner, 474 m to the edge
- Welcome Rest, 492 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
- Vinyl Cafe, 26 m away · Cafés
- Bohemian Bakery, 47 m away · Bakeries
- Idiens Sheetmetal & Roofing, 85 m away · Houseware
- Signtech Christchurch, 99 m away · Signwriters
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St (Aspire), 184 m away · route 60
- Tuam St near Fitzgerald Ave, 197 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 135 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 135 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 392 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Phillipstown ran about $490 a week, $60 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak, 3
- Dumped Rubbish, 3
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 31 Oct 2025 submain shutoff valve outside 23 Essex st does not totally shut off and has no handlr
Water Leak, 21 Dec 2024 Fire hydrant is bubbling up like a spring. Lots of water. New since yesterday.
Water Leak, 21 Dec 2024- Dumped Rubbish, 17 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Jan 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 25 Nov 2022
Elsewhere on Essex Street
- 41 Essex Street, 21 reports
- 15 Essex Street, 18 reports
- 38 Essex Street, 17 reports
- 14 Essex Street, 12 reports
- 5 Essex Street, 10 reports
- 24 Essex Street, 9 reports
- 55 Essex Street, 8 reports
- 35 Essex Street, 8 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central 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.
Essex Street, the whole record → · Everything about Phillipstown → · 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
6 council reports on record since November 2022, most often water leak (3), dumped rubbish (3).
Phillipstown, Christchurch, on Essex Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Raglan Reserve, 102 m to its edge.