2 Tensing Place
8 council reports since November 2018, 8 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Tensing 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
- Vicki Reserve, 184 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Hillary Reserve, 241 m to the edge · playground, 13 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, 500 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Z Curletts Road, 85 m away · Petrol stations
- Burger King, 86 m away · Fast food
- Z2O Wash, 152 m away · Car washes
- Storage King, 156 m away · Storage
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 223 m away · route 80
- Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 243 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 15 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 180 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 299 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
Road Blockage, 10 Mar 2026 During the morning and evening rush, cars waiting at the traffic lights at Blenheim and Curletts block the intersections with Tensing and Hi
Accessibility, 2 Feb 2026 pedestrian rail knocked over by car
Water Leak, 31 Oct 2025 Water leak
Dumped Rubbish, 27 Jan 2025 Couch dumped on roadside
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 14 Aug 2024 Blue spray on 2 utility boxes corner tensing pace and curletts Rd
Graffiti, 2 Mar 2020
64 curletts road
Roading/Streets, 28 Jan 2020
tree needs to be trimmed please - over footpath blocking view to turn across Curletts rd from Tensing place
Graffiti, 8 Nov 2018
Cnr cutlets and tensing pl
Elsewhere on Tensing Place
- 29 Tensing Place, 5 reports
- 23 Tensing Place, 5 reports
- 25 Tensing Place, 4 reports
- 9 Tensing Place, 3 reports
- 7 Tensing Place, 3 reports
- 6 Tensing Place, 3 reports
- 3 Tensing Place, 3 reports
- 16 Tensing Place, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Tensing Place in 3 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.
Tensing 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
8 council reports on record since November 2018, most often graffiti (2), water leak (1), roading/streets (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Tensing Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Vicki Reserve, 184 m to its edge.