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3 council reports since June 2019, 3 carrying a photograph.
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
- Springfield Reserve, 381 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Piston Cranky, 61 m away · Car repair
- Alexandra Court Motel, 72 m away · Motels
- St Albans Retirement Village, 128 m away · Business
- Rosewood Court Motel, 140 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 79 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Albans, 377 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Graffiti, 3
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti, 6 Jul 2021 Black and white paint tags on dairy wall facing the footpath outside 969 Colombo Street.
Graffiti, 2 Oct 2020 Black paint tag on blue locked side door of dairy at 969 Colombo Street, facing the footpath
Graffiti, 9 Jun 2019
Black paint tag on TL 25 903 telecom utility box PLUS a leaking Toby leaking water over the footpath at same site: 974 Colombo St
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.
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 June 2019, most often graffiti (3).
Saint Albans, Christchurch, on A.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Springfield Reserve, 381 m to its edge.

