31 Showgate Avenue
7 council reports since May 2022, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 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
- Showgate Reserve, 42 m to the edge
- Buchanans Reserve, 64 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Peebles Reserve, 192 m to the edge · playground, 40 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 338 m to the edge
- Kinross Reserve, 423 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
- Southern Institute of Technology, 319 m away · Education & tutoring
- Riccarton Park and Function Centre, 344 m away · Venues & events
- Riccarton Rotary Market, 368 m away · Marketplace
- Action Sports & Leisure Hornby, 389 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 140 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 157 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 457 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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, 217 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
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 23 Feb 2026 1. Compromised retaining wall on the stream - needs repairing 2. Dead tree can be cut down, neighbour is happy to take wood for his fire if
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 21 Nov 2025 Drain missing grate
Sediment - Construction, 25 Apr 2025 These small polystyrene balls are left behind on the bank & in the water in the Paparoa stream after rain. The photos are taken in the area
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Dec 2024 Beige plastic chair dumped in the reserve, has been there for a while
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Jun 2023
Rubbish/Recycling, 18 May 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 18 May 2022 Flax ends
Elsewhere on Showgate Avenue
- 25 Showgate Avenue, 12 reports
- 30 Showgate Avenue, 8 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
7 council reports on record since May 2022, most often street gutters / storm water (2), rubbish/recycling (2), sediment - construction (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Showgate Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Showgate Reserve, 42 m to its edge.