26 Gamblins Road
2 council reports since February 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 33A Gamblins Road, 7 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 Martins Park, 150 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 5 pieces
- Hansen Park, 340 m to the edge · Sports ground · 12 ha · playground, 63 pieces
- Palatine Native Reserve, 428 m to the edge
- Heathcote Riverbank True Left, 462 m to the edge · 4 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Saint Martins Law, 98 m away · Lawyers
- Obsess Cafe - St Martins, 106 m away · Cafés
- St Martin's Community Centre, 106 m away · Venues & events
- Paper Tree, 111 m away · Bookshops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- St Martins Shops, 109 m away · route 27, the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Gamblins Rd near Ngaio St, 118 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Saint Martins, 69 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Martins, 227 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Martins, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Martins, 253 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Saint Martins, 312 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.
The remembered names nearby
- St. Martins Park Opened Dec, 166 m away ·
ST. MARTINS PARK OPENED DEC. 6 1952 BY THE MAYOR OF CHRISTCHURCH R.M. MACFARLANE ESC. / RE
· 2003
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Saint Martins ran about $640 a week, $90 above 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
Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Aug 2026 Yellow recycling bin from 26 Gamblins Rd Saint Martin’s was severely damaged during today’s waste collection. Lid removed, handle broken, an
Damaged Street Sign, 6 Feb 2024 Came out this morning to collect my bins to find the waste contractor had slammed my green bin on the safety pole on the grass and snapped i
Elsewhere on Gamblins Road
- 33A Gamblins Road, 7 reports
- 30 Gamblins Road, 7 reports
- 28 Gamblins Road, 7 reports
- 24A Gamblins Road, 6 reports
- 16 Gamblins Road, 6 reports
- 25 Gamblins Road, 4 reports
- 22 Gamblins Road, 4 reports
- 29 Gamblins Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Gamblins Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Gamblins Road, the whole record → · Everything about Saint Martins → · 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
2 council reports on record since February 2024, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), damaged street sign (1).
Saint Martins, Christchurch, on Gamblins Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Martins Park, 150 m to its edge, 2 ha.

