116 Racecourse Road
3 council reports since December 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 3 Racecourse Road, 27 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
- Paparua Stream Reserve, you are in it
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 314 m to the edge
- Showgate Reserve, 356 m to the edge
- Chokebore Reserve, 363 m to the edge · Botanic
- Gloaming Reserve, 376 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Racecourse Riccarton, 31 m away · Venues & events
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 52 m away · Hotels
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 67 m away · Restaurants
- Carbine Lounge & Bar - The Racecourse Hotel, 87 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Racecourse Rd near O'briens Rd, 58 m away · route 130
- Epsom Rd near Carbine Pl, 138 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 401 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 456 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Sockburn ran about $566 a week, $16 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
Water General, 24 Sept 2025 Very Cloudy stream
Pavement - General, 2 Apr 2025 Broken glass bottles on and beside footpath
- Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Dec 2022
Elsewhere on Racecourse Road
- 3 Racecourse Road, 27 reports
- 1 Racecourse Road, 8 reports
- 118 Racecourse Road, 7 reports
- 114 Racecourse Road, 7 reports
- 82 Racecourse Road, 6 reports
- 130 Racecourse Road, 6 reports
- 88A Racecourse Road, 5 reports
- 35 Racecourse Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Racecourse Road in 59 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Racecourse Road, the whole record → · Everything about Sockburn → · 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 December 2022, most often water general (1), pavement - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Racecourse Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, the address is inside it.

