30 Showgate Avenue
8 council reports since September 2021, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 reports on file.
On the register here
- Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting, 165J Racecourse Road (216m)
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
- Showgate Reserve, you are in it
- Buchanans Reserve, 136 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Peebles Reserve, 180 m to the edge · playground, 40 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 329 m to the edge
- Kinross Reserve, 420 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.
On the doorstep
- Riccarton Park and Function Centre, 287 m away · Venues & events
- Riccarton Rotary Market, 308 m away · Marketplace
- Racecourse Riccarton, 392 m away · Venues & events
- Southern Institute of Technology, 393 m away · Education & tutoring
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 214 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 230 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Peebles Reserve plaque, 192 m away ·
Wigram Lions Club donated this seat / to the Christchurch community / in memory of (illegi
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
- Rubbish/Recycling, 4
- Pavement - General, 1
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 24 Aug 2025 Please add to list of desire paths, if not already
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 26 Jan 2025 Graffiti on footbridge/cycle bridge on cycleway between Racecourse & Carmen Road
Dumped Rubbish, 10 Jan 2025 Rubbish dumped at Showgate reserve near the fence and power pole
Rubbish/Recycling, 12 Apr 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 30 Mar 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 1 Mar 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 8 Feb 2022
General Request, 9 Sept 2021 A fridge has been dumped in the stream of this reserve
Elsewhere on Showgate Avenue
- 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 reports
- 31 Showgate Avenue, 7 reports
- 27 Showgate Avenue, 6 reports
- 26 Showgate Avenue, 5 reports
- 8A Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
- 49 Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
- 48A Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
- 23 Showgate Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Showgate Avenue in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Showgate Avenue, 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 rubbish/recycling (4), pavement - general (1), graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Showgate Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting.
Showgate Reserve, the address is inside it.