27 Forfar Street
7 council reports since January 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 43 Forfar Street, 11 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
- St Albans Park, 21 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 101 pieces
- Berwick Reserve, 142 m to the edge
- English Park, 392 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Mondo Black, 314 m away · Hairdressers
- King's Books & Stamps, 314 m away · Bookshops
- Schroeder's Tavern, 319 m away · Bars & pubs
- Ris'tretto Espresso Coffee, 320 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Warrington St Shops, 285 m away · route 44, route 100
- Warrington St Shops , 299 m away · route 44, route 100
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 305 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 334 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 383 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 499 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 Saint Albans ran about $514 a week, $36 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Road, 19 Mar 2025 Can you please fix the dip in the road. This job has not been completed and was reported last year
Damaged Road, 2 Mar 2025 Dip in the road marked out by contractor at the end of last year still isn’t fixed and getting worse
Damaged Road, 27 Jan 2025 Dip in the road becoming worse. Buses and trucks bounce causing vibrations and noise. This was probably reported but haven’t been fixed.
Damaged Road, 3 Dec 2024 Dip in the road becoming worse. Buses and trucks bounce causing vibrations and noise. ?
Graffiti somewhere else, 23 Oct 2024 New tag overnight on vacant section ?
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1 Nov 2023
- Water Leak, 21 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Forfar Street
- 43 Forfar Street, 11 reports
- 7 Forfar Street, 8 reports
- 35 Forfar Street, 8 reports
- 9 Forfar Street, 7 reports
- 46 Forfar Street, 6 reports
- 88 Forfar Street, 4 reports
- 63 Forfar Street, 4 reports
- 54 Forfar Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Forfar Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 2 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Innes 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.
Forfar Street, the whole record → · Everything about Saint Albans → · 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
7 council reports on record since January 2023, most often damaged road (4), water leak (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Forfar Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Albans Park, 21 m to its edge, 6 ha.




