47 Purchas Street
3 council reports since April 2023, 2 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, 167 m away · Motels
- Tranquil Lodge, 176 m away · Hostels
- Sherborne Motor Lodge, 195 m away · Motels
- Rosewood Court Motel, 215 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, 235 m away · route 27
- Bealey Ave, 246 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 315 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
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 20 Jan 2025 This piece of road recently had major underground pipes installed. They did an ok job but they left millions of stones all over the road. Th
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 6 Sept 2024 We need to do some work in SWMH6131 but the lid is broken. It is missing the lifting ring and is cracked. The lifting ring in the photo was
- Flooding, 8 Apr 2023
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
- 38 Purchas Street, 4 reports
- 83 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
3 council reports on record since April 2023, most often street gutters / storm water (1), roads - general (1), flooding (1).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on Purchas Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →

