2 Buchanans Road
7 council reports since May 2017, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Buchanans 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
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 216 m to the edge
- Buchanans Reserve, 262 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Showgate Reserve, 361 m to the edge
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 453 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Bluechip Motors, 249 m away · Car dealers
- Blackwells, 252 m away · Car dealers
- Racecourse Riccarton, 292 m away · Venues & events
- Grand Prix Cafe, 304 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Racecourse Rd, 8 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Racecourse Rd, 68 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 184 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 241 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 370 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
Road Blockage, 7 Apr 2026 Loose roofing iron on partially demolished house at 3 Buchanans Rd. (House possibly abandoned). Iron is on gate and flapping in wind. Hazard
Street Cleaning, 8 Oct 2025 This corner was flooded the other day due to the blocked drain
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Jul 2025
Roads - General, 5 Jun 2025 Gutter by bus stop near Buchanans/Racecourse intersection very clogged with growing weeds.
- Water Leak, 14 Jun 2023
Graffiti, 29 Mar 2018
Opposite 84b Racecourse rd
Graffiti, 11 May 2017
Elsewhere on Buchanans Road
- 29 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
- 7C Buchanans Road, 4 reports
- 15 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
- 6 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
- 10 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
- 9-11 Buchanans Road, 1 report
- 9 Buchanans Road, 1 report
- 7B Buchanans Road, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Buchanans 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 May 2017, most often graffiti (2), water leak (1), street cleaning (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Buchanans Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, 216 m to its edge.