118 Racecourse Road
7 council reports since July 2023, 3 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, 70 m to the edge
- Chokebore Reserve, 301 m to the edge · Botanic
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 335 m to the edge
- Showgate Reserve, 353 m to the edge
- Gloaming Reserve, 355 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
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 27 m away · Restaurants
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 41 m away · Hotels
- Carbine Lounge & Bar - The Racecourse Hotel, 44 m away · Bars & pubs
- Racecourse Riccarton, 45 m away · Venues & events
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Racecourse Rd near O'briens Rd, 54 m away · route 130
- Epsom Rd near Carbine Pl, 136 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 475 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 14 Apr 2026 severe water leak
Flooding, 13 Apr 2026 badly leaking pipe underground. a lot of surface water.
Overgrown Vegetation, 9 Jun 2024 Large bushes in the way - I have to run onto the road to avoid this
- Water Leak, 2 Aug 2023
- Water Leak, 1 Aug 2023
- Water Leak, 19 Jul 2023
- Water Leak, 14 Jul 2023
Elsewhere on Racecourse Road
- 3 Racecourse Road, 27 reports
- 1 Racecourse Road, 8 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
- 210 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
7 council reports on record since July 2023, most often water leak (5), overgrown vegetation (1), flooding (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Racecourse Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, 70 m to its edge.