26 Craven Street
8 council reports since May 2021, 8 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, 203 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Sockburn Park, 350 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Holmes Park, 400 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 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, 356 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- 93 On Main, 242 m away · Cafés
- ProVision, 280 m away · Rental
- Middlepark Motel, 322 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 339 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Craven St near Algidus St, 38 m away · route 130
- Craven St near Algidus St, 54 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 236 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
- Damaged Street Sign, 4
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 1
- Road Signage, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 12 Aug 2025 The street sign for Algidus Street is not easily visible when travelling on Craven Street towards Main South Road. It is only visible while
Damaged Street Sign, 10 Apr 2025 Street sign falling off.
Damaged Street Sign, 29 Sept 2024 Street sign for Algidus Street is not attached properly to the pole. This is on the Algidus Street frontage of 26 Craven Street.
General Request, 16 Sept 2024 Please come and tidy these gardens!!! They are full of weeds and many plants have died. Nobody in this street is looking after these “not wa
Dumped Rubbish, 20 May 2024 Mattress
Damaged Street Sign, 30 Jan 2024 Street Sign for Algidus Street, Sockburn, (on the Algidus Street frontage of 26 Craven Street) is not attached to the pole properly.
Damaged Street Sign, 16 Aug 2022 Craven/Algidus intersection missing Algidus street sign, and Craven sign is damaged
Wastewater/Stormwater, 29 May 2021 and another
Elsewhere on Craven Street
- 35 Craven Street, 10 reports
- 27 Craven Street, 9 reports
- 19 Craven Street, 5 reports
- 2 Craven Street, 4 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
8 council reports on record since May 2021, most often damaged street sign (4), wastewater/stormwater (1), road signage (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Craven Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, 203 m to its edge.







