36 English Street
3 council reports since September 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 English Street, 11 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Huntley, 67 Yaldhurst Road (126m)
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
- Holmes Park, you are in it · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Colman Reserve, 189 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 205 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 214 m to the edge · Botanic
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, 441 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Belle Bonne Motel, 261 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 322 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 329 m away · Motels
- Academy Funerals, 346 m away · Funeral directors
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Yaldhurst Rd near English St, 232 m away · route 86, route 140
- Yaldhurst Rd near Brodie St, 255 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, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 312 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 313 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 385 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 385 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.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Oct 2025 Messy entrance to Holmes Park Croquet club
Park - General Request, 15 Jun 2024 Branch broken off tree..caught up on way down By scout den in the main park
- Park - General Request, 1 Sept 2023
Elsewhere on English Street
- 25 English Street, 11 reports
- 67 English Street, 9 reports
- 49 English Street, 6 reports
- 32 English Street, 5 reports
- 30 English Street, 5 reports
- 1 English Street, 5 reports
- 59 English Street, 4 reports
- 51 English Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names English Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
English 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
3 council reports on record since September 2023, most often park - general request (2), overgrown vegetation (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on English Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Huntley.
Holmes Park, the address is inside it, 1 ha.

