451 Blenheim Road

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

• Hillary Reserve, 323 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
• Vicki Reserve, 356 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

• Z Espress - Curletts Road, 16 m away · Fast food
• Z2O Wash, 53 m away · Car washes
• Target Furniture - Christchurch, 70 m away · Furniture
• Z Curletts Road, 98 m away · Petrol stations

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 79 m away · route 80
• Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 152 m away · route 80

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 7 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 78 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 133 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 442 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

• Roading/Streets, 4
• Traffic Signals, 1
• Parks, 1
• Litter, 1
• General Request, 1
• Damaged Road, 1

Photographed here 4 on record

more photographs
on the Sockburn wall →

What’s on record

• Traffic Signals, 18 Feb 2025 Red right turn arrow is permanently red. Right turning cars forced to pull out of turn lane into traffic and go straight instead.
• Litter, 18 Apr 2024 Loads of polystyrene sheets dropped down the street, being smashed up by traffic
• Damaged Road, 9 Sept 2023
• General Request, 10 Jul 2023
• Roading/Streets, 9 Sept 2020 there are metal scraps in the westbound cycling lane on Blenheim road scattered through the gravel that is also in the cycling lane. the was
• Roading/Streets, 20 Mar 2020 10pm Thursday 19th. Turning right onto Blenheim Rd from the Sockburn overbridge. The right turn arrow is always red. It never turned green.
• Roading/Streets, 17 Mar 2020 turning from curlers to blenheim road the red turn arrow is stuck on red. witnessed it for 3 sequences before turning.
• Parks, 4 Mar 2019 New tree hut built in Rissingholme risk to public
• Roading/Streets, 22 Feb 2019 The green traffic light timing has been drastically reduced on Blenheim Rd crossing Curletts causing a big increase in morning commute conge

Elsewhere on Blenheim Road

• 455 Blenheim Road, 35 reports
• 572 Blenheim Road, 16 reports
• 447 Blenheim Road, 12 reports
• 538 Blenheim Road, 8 reports
• 503 Blenheim Road, 7 reports
• 472 Blenheim Road, 7 reports
• 455R Blenheim Road, 7 reports
• 521 Blenheim Road, 6 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Blenheim Road in 122 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 people killed, 28 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.