16A Thornhill Place
9 council reports since May 2020, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Thornhill Place.
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
- Buchanans Reserve, 49 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Showgate Reserve, 91 m to the edge
- Peebles Reserve, 254 m to the edge · playground, 40 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 294 m to the edge
- Kinross Reserve, 481 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Southern Institute of Technology, 292 m away · Education & tutoring
- Bluechip Motors, 363 m away · Car dealers
- Racecourse Riccarton, 366 m away · Venues & events
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 396 m away · Hotels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 123 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 129 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 407 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 462 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 474 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Park - General Request, 20 Nov 2025 Fence needs repair as it is falling apart which is causing my 'park gate' to no longer secure. As much as I want access to the park, I do no
Vandalism - General, 23 Sept 2024 This tree in Showgate reserve is dying. An inspection of the base of the tree reveals 5 drill holes. This is the deliberate killing of this
- Park - General Request, 29 Aug 2023
- Park - General Request, 29 Aug 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 5 Jul 2023
Parks, 6 Jul 2021
Parks, 23 Mar 2021 In the first photo the top rail of the foot bridge is gone. In the background is the dead tree that I have previously reported. the 2nd phot
Parks, 30 Jul 2020 garden waste in showgate reserve
Parks, 2 May 2020 what has happened to the nice native gardens that where here. Are they going to be replaced?
Elsewhere on Thornhill Place
- 14 Thornhill Place, 5 reports
- 1 Thornhill Place, 4 reports
- 6 Thornhill Place, 2 reports
- 2 Thornhill Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Thornhill Place in 1 crash 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.
Thornhill Place, 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
9 council reports on record since May 2020, most often parks (4), park - general request (3), vandalism - general (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Thornhill Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Buchanans Reserve, 49 m to its edge.