Pothole97 Hodgens Road
The pothole you fixed last year has broken open again tarseal is being pushed onto the berm. Thanks if you could fix this please.
Prebbleton, Christchurch
68 council reports since May 2018, the 102nd busiest suburb in the city. 57 photographs on record. About 5,750 people, Stats NZ’s June 2025 estimate for the wider Prebbleton urban area.
The record also holds about $700 a week to rent· 57 photographs· 2 old photographs· 2 parks· 1 civic facility· 3 tracks· 0.1% of the outline mapped liquefied· 8.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline· 1 drawn rule bind this ground· 18 epicentres inside the outline· 7 bus stops· 2 businesses· 2 heritage places· 40 documents
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
$700/week
middle half $580–$850
New bonds here ran at about $700 a week in the April–June 2026 quarter, the middle half of them between $580 and $850, across 15 bonds lodged, down 3% on a year ago. That’s about $150 a week above the city’s own quarter median of $550. Tenancy Services counts these under the “Prebbleton” statistical area, close to this suburb’s outline, not exactly it.
By dwelling type and bedrooms, April–June 2026 quarter
- 1-bedroom house, $700 a week · 9 new bonds
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
The ground: the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 0% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 2 parks, 1 civic facility, 3 tracks and 7 bus stops, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly rubbish & dumping, 11 reports in the year to 13 October 2026, the newest 28 September 2026.
One for the quiz, Prebbleton enters the written record on 22 January 1859, “Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)”, Papers Past.
About the suburb
Prebbleton is a small town in the Selwyn District in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. It is 11 km southwest of the centre of Christchurch and about 2 km south of the outlying industrial suburb of Hornby.
As reported 57 on record
The suburb, back then 2 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Prebbleton
- Prebbleton enters the written record on 22 January 1859, “Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)”, Papers Past.
- “Prebbleton” appears somewhere in 572 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: rubbish/recycling, 26 May 2018, at 97.
- The street that keeps coming up is Hodgens Road, reported on 27 separate days.
Lately the newest reports
Overgrown Vegetation393–433 Springs Rd
Lots of flowering gorse bushes in the verge along the road, just past healthy harvest on the left on Springs road when heading towards Prebbleton. Would be…
General Request98 Trents Road
There is a water leak along side the bike path that is flowing into the water race.
Reports per year up 27% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
The suburb today
Schools here
Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
The green here 2
- Prebbleton DomainSports ground · 11 ha
- Railtrail: Marshs Road - Springs RoadSports ground · 1 ha
Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf 1
- Prebbleton Cemetery Springs RoadCemetery
Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.
The tracks through here 3
- Walk and bike track through Prebbleton5.1 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Prebbleton2.2 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Prebbleton1.0 km · Christchurch · walk · bike
Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.
The ground that moved
The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.1% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.
The pedal network threads this ground, 8.0 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Little River Link. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.
The rulebook binds this ground, 1 drawn instrument, 1 bottle-store buffer; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.7 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
The buses through it 7 stops
7 Metro stops inside Prebbleton's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 80, route 81.
- Birchs Rd near Glenwood Dr near Birchs Rd
- Birchs Rd near Glenwood Dr near Birchs Rd
- Prebbleton near Springs Rd
- Prebbleton near Springs Rd
- Springs Rd near Birchs Rd near Springs Rd
- Springs Rd near Birchs Rd near Springs Rd
- Springs Rd near Blakes Rd
Businesses here 2 in the directory
2 premises in Prebbleton across 2 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Prebbleton, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
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Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)
…te estuary 6 1076 o2 0 10 0 gibbie bay 6 1492 2 2 0 500 charteris bay 7 1587 9 0 0 18 0 0 prebbleton 8 1595 1 0 0 2 0 0 tai tapu 2 1596 5 ofo 10 0 0 rangipra 10 1621 12 0 0 2 0 0 avonside 11 1656 4 0…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 26 January 1859)
…estuary 5 1076 0 2 o 1 o 0 gibbiesßay 6 1492 2 2 0 50 0 charteris bay 7 1587 9 0 0 18 0 0 prebbleton 8 1595 1 0 0 2 0 0 taitapu 2 1596 5 00 10 0 0 rangiora 10 1621 12 0 0 24 0 0 avonside 11 1656 4 0 0…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 12 February 1859)
…e estuary 5 1076 0 2 0 10 0 gibbie bay 6 1492 2 2o 5 0 0 charteris bay 7 1587 9 o o is 00 prebbleton 8 1595 10 0 2 0 0 taitapu 2 1596 5 0 0 10 0 0 itangiora 10 1621 12 00 24 0 0 avonside ii 1656 4 0 0…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 21 December 1861)
…or tlie superintendent fz reserve of tcaacres for presbyterian church andsewl purposes at prebbleton was reduced to five acres tl quantity established by precedent for similar purw ihe coal reserves m…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 02 April 1862)
…etofore to further your interests i remain gentlemen your obedient servant wm b toss will prebbleton march 24 1862 1289 to the electors of the city of christchurch fi entlemeni beg to offer myself as…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
MARRIAGES. (Lyttelton Times, 05 April 1862)
…orney-at-law chew magna somersetshire to amelia eldest daughter of abraham wade farmer of prebbleton late of wrascall somersetshire leefranksjan 28 at woodend by the rev j raven henry c f lee esq of k…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF HEATHCOTE—CLAIMS TO VOTE.—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862)
…of rural section 8 house and wharf ferry road house and land christchurch quay 104 acres prebbleton house and paddock windmill road house and 3 acres land part section 210 lower lincoln road sections…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 April 1862)
…ections 3641 and 3649 near weedons great north road thos b bain tosswill william browning prebbleton freehold raikaia district sections 3696 and 3697 thos b bain traherne llewellyn price teviotdale st…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
LIST OF CLAMANTS TO BE PLACED ON THE ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHEVIOT. (Lyttelton Times, 19 April 1862)
…ections 3641 and 3649 near weedons great north road thos b bain tosswill william browning prebbleton freehold raikaia district sections 3696 and 3697 thos b bain traherne llewellyn price teviotdale st…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 25 July 1866)
…have been informed that a gentleman who possesses a large property m the neighbourhood of prebbleton on which hitherto the boring apparatus now m the colony has failed to reach water is going to bring…Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
40 more documents came up in searches for Prebbleton's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Prebbleton with Hornby South · Halswell · Hornby · Wigram · Aidanfield · Islington, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Prebbleton?
Prebbleton is a small town in the Selwyn District in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. The public record holds 68 council reports for it, the first filed in May 2018.
How many people live in Prebbleton?
About 5,750: Stats NZ’s June 2025 estimate for the wider Prebbleton urban area, 1,086 per square kilometre across 5.3 km².
What gets reported in Prebbleton?
68 reports on record, most often rubbish & dumping (33), roads & footpaths (20), everything else (9). 11 of them in the year to 13 October 2026.
Did earthquakes strike under Prebbleton?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 18 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.7 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
What stood in Prebbleton before?
The heritage register holds 2 places here, All Saints Anglican Church, Prebbleton War Memorial. The written record goes back further: the shelf, for the name →
Does Prebbleton have buses?
7 Metro stops inside the suburb’s outline, served by 80, 81.
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