2 Orcades Street
3 council reports since November 2018, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 7 Orcades Street, 4 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
- Macfarlane Park, 49 m to the edge · Sports ground · 8 ha · playground, 54 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 57 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 210 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 430 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 500 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 Shirley ran about $575 a week, $25 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Supply, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Fallen Tree, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 21 Oct 2025
Graffiti, 4 Jan 2022 Graffiti on fence of 130 Emmet St. Looks like backwards 3/E and separately a 275
Water Supply, 14 Nov 2018
Leaking water meter
Elsewhere on Orcades Street
- 7 Orcades Street, 4 reports
- 10 Orcades Street, 4 reports
- 8 Orcades Street, 2 reports
- 8-2 Orcades Street, 1 report
- 2A Orcades Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Orcades Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Orcades Street, the whole record → · Everything about Shirley → · 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 November 2018, most often water supply (1), graffiti (1), fallen tree (1).
Shirley, Christchurch, on Orcades Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Macfarlane Park, 49 m to its edge, 8 ha.