16A Craven Street
4 council reports since July 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 35 Craven Street, 10 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
- Colman Reserve, 250 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Sockburn Park, 359 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Holmes Park, 406 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Upper Riccarton Library, 295 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- 93 On Main, 170 m away · Cafés
- ProVision, 208 m away · Rental
- Middlepark Motel, 293 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 295 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Craven St near Algidus St, 40 m away · route 130
- Craven St near Algidus St, 109 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 162 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Abandoned Vehicle, 2 Jul 2026 Abandoned car ( has not been moved for at least 3 full weeks)
Litter, 24 Aug 2025 Broken glass in east side of pedestrian and cycle crossing
Road Blockage, 24 Aug 2025 Glass from broken bottle at cycle crossing
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Jul 2024
Elsewhere on Craven Street
- 35 Craven Street, 10 reports
- 27 Craven Street, 9 reports
- 26 Craven Street, 8 reports
- 19 Craven Street, 5 reports
- 2 Craven Street, 4 reports
- 17B Craven Street, 4 reports
- 33 Craven Street, 3 reports
- 3 Craven Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Craven Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Riccarton 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.
Craven Street, 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
4 council reports on record since July 2024, most often road blockage (1), litter (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Craven Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, 250 m to its edge.