455R Blenheim Road
7 council reports since November 2025, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 455 Blenheim Road, 35 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
- Hillary Reserve, 340 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 369 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, 50 m away · Car washes
- Target Furniture - Christchurch, 53 m away · Furniture
- Z Curletts Road, 106 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, 87 m away · route 80
- Blenheim Rd near Curletts Rd, 163 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 91 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 119 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 432 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 27 Sept 2026 debris all over road. dangerous buts of firewood causing punctures
- Road Blockage, 27 Sept 2026
firewood scattered at the left turn and on blenheim road from curletts
Street Light Outage, 26 Aug 2026 Street light not working at NE corner
Road Blockage, 21 Feb 2026 lots of stones and Gravel spilt on the intersection and in the bike lane
- Traffic Signals, 25 Jan 2026
red turning arrow doesn't change on weekends. the red turning arrow for east ound traffic on Blenheim road turning ontto curletts road to he
Traffic Signals, 17 Dec 2025 Turning Right from Blenheim rd onto highway 73 sth. It took 2 cycles of opposing traffic befor Right turn was given by control lights. This
- Traffic Signals, 16 Nov 2025
traffic light phase way too quick unsulally
Elsewhere on Blenheim Road
- 455 Blenheim Road, 35 reports
- 572 Blenheim Road, 16 reports
- 447 Blenheim Road, 12 reports
- 451 Blenheim Road, 9 reports
- 538 Blenheim Road, 8 reports
- 503 Blenheim Road, 7 reports
- 472 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 civic layer
This ground votes in Halswell 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.
Blenheim Road, 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 November 2025, most often traffic signals (3), road blockage (2), street light outage (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Blenheim Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Hillary Reserve, 340 m to its edge.



