21 Main South Road
8 council reports since September 2021, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 71 Main South Road, 40 reports on file.
On the register here
- St Peter's Church Lychgate and Setting, 25 Yaldhurst Road (67m)
- St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting, 24 Main South Road (89m)
- St Peter's Church & Setting, 24 Main South Road (108m)
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
- Glebe Reserve, 257 m to the edge · Botanic
- Hansons Reserve, 322 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Holmes Park, 404 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 407 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 436 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Thistle Guest House, 69 m away · B&Bs
- Sunrise Bed and Breakfast, 97 m away · B&Bs
- Petersgate Counselling Centre, 128 m away · Counselling
- Growers Direct Market, 156 m away · Fruit & veg
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Curletts Rd, 88 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Yaldhurst Rd near Angela St, 124 m away · route 86, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 6 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 145 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 145 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 369 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 416 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 28 Dec 2025 Fence by old motor camp
Pavement - General, 2 Feb 2024 Below the pavement is a big pothole on the curb where cars trying to park near the church enterence are hitting with a bang and si king into
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 31 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 2 Apr 2023
- Water Leak, 25 Oct 2022
- Water Leak, 21 Oct 2022
- Water Leak, 19 Oct 2022
Roading/Streets, 22 Sept 2021 Car parking on bike lane, this is the second car I have come across
Elsewhere on Main South Road
- 71 Main South Road, 40 reports
- 9 Main South Road, 36 reports
- 30 Main South Road, 33 reports
- 33 Main South Road, 30 reports
- 158 Main South Road, 30 reports
- 193 Main South Road, 18 reports
- 138 Main South Road, 16 reports
- 125 Main South Road, 16 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main South Road in 167 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 24 seriously hurt.
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.
Main South 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
8 council reports on record since September 2021, most often water leak (3), street gutters / storm water (1), roading/streets (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, St Peter's Church Lychgate and Setting, St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting.
Glebe Reserve, 257 m to its edge.


