18 Watts Road
9 council reports since May 2017, 8 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Watts Road.
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
- Sockburn Park, 339 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 495 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.
The civic shelf nearby
- Upper Riccarton Library, 329 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- ProVision, 152 m away · Rental
- 93 On Main, 189 m away · Cafés
- The Food Cube, 247 m away · Cafés
- Norjo Motorcycles, 248 m away · Motorcycle shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 178 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 337 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 8 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 13 May 2026
Pavement - General, 5 Nov 2025 largish hole in watts rd footpath that is very deep exposing pipes etc. like a sink hole.bery dangerous looking
Water Leak, 7 Feb 2025 Looks like leaking water pipe. Water bubbling up to surface and running down channel to sump. Flowing quite quickly.
Litter, 20 Aug 2024 Rubbish dumped on pavement
Water Leak, 11 May 2024- Graffiti, 26 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 27 Jan 2022 Enable box at 16 Watts rd
Graffiti, 6 Jul 2017
Graffiti, 25 May 2017
Elsewhere on Watts Road
- 34 Watts Road, 8 reports
- 23 Watts Road, 6 reports
- 25 Watts Road, 5 reports
- 18E Watts Road, 4 reports
- 25E Watts Road, 3 reports
- 35 Watts Road, 2 reports
- 17 Watts Road, 2 reports
- 6–12 Watts Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Watts Road in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.
Watts 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
9 council reports on record since May 2017, most often graffiti (4), water leak (2), pavement - general (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Watts Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sockburn Park, 339 m to its edge, 2 ha.