23 Tensing Place
5 council reports since December 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Tensing Place, 8 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
- Vicki Reserve, 212 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Hillary Reserve, 411 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, 397 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Storage King, 110 m away · Storage
- Burger King, 162 m away · Fast food
- Z Curletts Road, 172 m away · Petrol stations
- Totally Gluten Free Bakery - Sockburn, 173 m away · Delis
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, 190 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 272 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 452 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 16 Mar 2026 Large amount of glass debris from ? broken bottles across entire roadway for about 10m. risk to kids, bikes etc
Rubbish and Bins - General, 30 Dec 2025 bin lid is damaged and needs replacing before it falls off
Pothole, 11 Nov 2024
Pavement - Damaged, 6 Dec 2023 Cracked pavement seems to be getting longer and starting to widen over time not sure how long it's been there
Poles and Signage - General, 6 Dec 2023 Not sure how long but seems to be getting worse with time
Elsewhere on Tensing Place
- 2 Tensing Place, 8 reports
- 29 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
5 council reports on record since December 2023, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), roads - general (1), pothole (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Tensing Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Vicki Reserve, 212 m to its edge.