38 Purchas Street
4 council reports since November 2019, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 70A Purchas Street, 8 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 →
On the doorstep
- Courtesy Court Motel, 114 m away · Motels
- Alexandra Court Motel, 156 m away · Motels
- Rosewood Court Motel, 177 m away · Motels
- Sherborne Motor Lodge, 178 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Purchas St near Colombo St, 168 m away · route 27
- Colombo St near Purchas St, 182 m away · route 27
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 263 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 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
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Pothole, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 28 Aug 2026 Potholes and pavement failures, despite being resealed twice
Dumped Rubbish, 12 Nov 2025 Child car seat dumped on the verge outside 42 Purchas Street needs removal.
Graffiti, 25 Feb 2020
Roading/Streets, 23 Nov 2019
Poor footpath repair.
Elsewhere on Purchas Street
- 70A Purchas Street, 8 reports
- 84 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 26 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 19 Purchas Street, 5 reports
- 86 Purchas Street, 4 reports
- 69 Purchas Street, 4 reports
- 83 Purchas Street, 3 reports
- 67 Purchas Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Purchas Street in 44 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 9 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Purchas 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
4 council reports on record since November 2019, most often roading/streets (1), pothole (1), graffiti (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Purchas Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →