40 English Street
3 council reports since June 2022, 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 (246m)
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, 60 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Colman Reserve, 110 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 250 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 333 m to the edge · Botanic
- Iona Reserve, 480 m to the edge · playground, 2 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, 487 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Belle Bonne Motel, 204 m away · Motels
- Sharon Howells School of Dance, 298 m away · Dance studios
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 378 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 380 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Yaldhurst Rd near English St, 224 m away · route 86, route 140
- Yaldhurst Rd near Corfe St, 228 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, 323 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 347 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 403 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 478 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 3 Nov 2025- Damaged Street Sign, 19 Jan 2023
Roading/Streets, 27 Jun 2022 Someone has driven into the island. The signs are knocked over. The bumper from the car which was on the island is now down the alleyway.
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 June 2022, most often roading/streets (1), dumped rubbish (1), damaged street sign (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on English Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Huntley.
Holmes Park, 60 m to its edge, 1 ha.