12 Showgate Avenue
2 council reports since March 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 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
- Showgate Reserve, 126 m to the edge
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 170 m to the edge
- Buchanans Reserve, 200 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Peebles Reserve, 337 m to the edge · playground, 40 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, 234 m away · Venues & events
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 261 m away · Hotels
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 262 m away · Restaurants
- Carbine Lounge & Bar - The Racecourse Hotel, 284 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, 137 m away · route 130
- Racecourse Rd near O'briens Rd, 194 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 461 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
Trees - General, 30 Mar 2025 Tree outside our house is very over grown and is now impeding on the footpath, can this please be pruned right back or removed. Thanks
Water Leak, 17 Mar 2025 Leak from seal in water meter
Elsewhere on Showgate Avenue
- 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 reports
- 30 Showgate Avenue, 8 reports
- 31 Showgate Avenue, 7 reports
- 27 Showgate Avenue, 6 reports
- 26 Showgate Avenue, 5 reports
- 8A Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
- 49 Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
- 48A Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Showgate Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Showgate Avenue, 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
2 council reports on record since March 2025, most often water leak (1), trees - general (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Showgate Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Showgate Reserve, 126 m to its edge.