3 Sanctuary Gardens
4 council reports since June 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 15 Sanctuary Gardens, 6 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
- Sanctuary Gardens Reserve, 38 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 3 pieces
- Havana Gardens Reserve, 97 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Queenswood Landscape Reserve, 350 m to the edge
- Wilmington Reserve, 476 m to the edge · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Liquorland, 303 m away · Bottle stores
- Lux Nair Bar, 304 m away · Beauty
- Repco, 305 m away · Car parts
- Bunnings Warehouse, 332 m away · Hardware
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 110 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 278 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 451 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Shirley, 467 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Road Blockage, 3 Apr 2026 Upper section of tree is dead. Has not had leaves all summer. Is now dropping large branches onto road on windy days. This is dangerous for
Overgrown Vegetation, 28 Dec 2025 Overgrown flax bushes obstructing view of vehicles coming around corner when exiting driveway. Getting very dangerous
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Jun 2025 2x full rubbish bags dumped near bushes in entrance of Clearbrrok Palms.
Water Leak, 22 Jun 2025 Water leak at boundary by foot path
Elsewhere on Sanctuary Gardens
- 15 Sanctuary Gardens, 6 reports
- 7 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 6 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 4 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 33 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 32 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 25 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
- 19 Sanctuary Gardens, 3 reports
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.
Sanctuary Gardens, 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
4 council reports on record since June 2025, most often water leak (1), road blockage (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Shirley, Christchurch, on Sanctuary Gardens.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sanctuary Gardens Reserve, 38 m to its edge, 1 ha.



