26 Essex Street
6 council reports since December 2022, 4 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, 81 m to the edge
- Worcester Pump Station Park, 352 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Essex Reserve, 374 m to the edge
- Welcome Rest, 439 m to the edge
- Doris Lusk Corner, 458 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, 54 m away · Cafés
- Idiens Sheetmetal & Roofing, 93 m away · Houseware
- Signtech Christchurch, 96 m away · Signwriters
- Bohemian Bakery, 99 m away · Bakeries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Tuam St near Fitzgerald Ave, 178 m away · route 80
- Hereford St (Aspire), 216 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 180 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 180 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 247 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 347 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 15 Jan 2025 Hole in footpath, small but quite deep
Dumped Rubbish, 20 Aug 2024 Old clothes and small suitcase dumped on the footpath corner of Essex and Clothier Streets need removal.
Pavement - Damaged, 20 Aug 2024 Hole in the footpath needs filling in on Clothier Street a tad south of Essex Street.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 11 Aug 2024- Graffiti, 19 Oct 2023
- Abandoned Vehicle, 28 Dec 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 December 2022, most often pavement - damaged (2), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1), graffiti (1).
Phillipstown, Christchurch, on Essex Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Raglan Reserve, 81 m to its edge.



