62 Essex Street
5 council reports since May 2023, 2 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
- Essex Reserve, 241 m to the edge
- Welcome Rest, 300 m to the edge
- Doris Lusk Corner, 334 m to the edge
- Worcester Pump Station Park, 372 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Gary Lee Electrical, 76 m away · Electrical
- Kingdom Clinic, 111 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Cashel Health Centre, 142 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Canterbury Trails, 161 m away · Guide
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Tuam St near Phillips St, 175 m away · route 80
- Tuam St near Saxon St, 199 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 188 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 338 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 338 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Phillipstown, 395 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 17 Jan 2026 White paint tags on Elmdale Lane sign off Essex Street.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 28 Apr 2025 Silver paint tag on Backflow Prevention Assembly asset by 62 Essex Street
- Overgrown Vegetation, 12 Sept 2023
- Water Leak, 23 May 2023
- Graffiti, 14 May 2023
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
5 council reports on record since May 2023, most often water leak (1), overgrown vegetation (1), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (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.

