2 Craven Street
4 council reports since December 2018, 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, 358 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Sockburn Park, 377 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Holmes Park, 428 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 474 m to the edge · Botanic
- Vicki Reserve, 488 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, 200 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- 93 On Main, 48 m away · Cafés
- ProVision, 76 m away · Rental
- Red Cafe, 231 m away · Cafés
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 255 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Craven St, 34 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Main South Rd near Craven St, 80 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 16 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
Street Light Outage, 16 Mar 2026 Street light outage craven / main south road
Damaged Street Sign, 11 Nov 2024 Tipping giveway sign
Roading/Streets, 17 Dec 2021 Slump in road needs fixing
Water Supply, 18 Dec 2018
There has a been a persistent leak coming up from under the pavers at the corner of Main South Road and Craven Street for well over a month.
Elsewhere on Craven Street
- 35 Craven Street, 10 reports
- 27 Craven Street, 9 reports
- 26 Craven Street, 8 reports
- 19 Craven Street, 5 reports
- 17B Craven Street, 4 reports
- 16A 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 December 2018, most often water supply (1), street light outage (1), roading/streets (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Craven Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, 358 m to its edge.