453 State Highway 73A
2 council reports since June 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on State Highway 73A.
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, 309 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 330 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
- Z2O Wash, 39 m away · Car washes
- Z Espress - Curletts Road, 44 m away · Fast food
- Z Curletts Road, 70 m away · Petrol stations
- Burger King, 78 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 100 m away · route 80
- Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 166 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 34 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 52 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 158 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 470 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
Damaged Street Sign, 11 Jun 2024 Bike lane sign twisted around wrong way on pole. Tried to twist back but couldn’t.
Damaged Street Sign, 11 Jun 2024 Street sign missing
Elsewhere on State Highway 73A
- 538 State Highway 73A, 1 report
- 193 State Highway 73A, 1 report
- 192 State Highway 73A, 1 report
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.
State Highway 73A, 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
2 council reports on record since June 2024, most often damaged street sign (2).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on State Highway 73A.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hillary Reserve, 309 m to its edge.

