47 Colman Avenue
8 council reports since November 2020, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 37 Colman Avenue, 13 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
- Colman Reserve, you are in it · playground, 3 pieces
- Holmes Park, 130 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 373 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 388 m to the edge · Botanic
- Doncaster Reserve, 487 m to the edge
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, 419 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Sharon Howells School of Dance, 276 m away · Dance studios
- Belle Bonne Motel, 315 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 326 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 330 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 363 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 440 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 473 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 6 on record
What’s on record
- Street Light Outage, 4 Jul 2025
Multiple Street lights out on Colman Avenue. Between 70 Colman and Te Kapehu School. Outside 5 Gladson Ave and Cnr Gladson and Colman.
Dumped Rubbish, 12 May 2025 Mattresses on the roadside
Fallen Tree, 16 Dec 2024 A pile of broken branches.
Dumped Rubbish, 16 Dec 2024 Mattress
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Nov 2024 Couches
- Animal - Domestic, 21 Apr 2024
We just had an encounter with a young woman (13-17 yo?) and a little boy (7-12yo?) who were walking a large Rotti called „Thea“ or „Theo“ or
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Apr 2024
Parks, 20 Nov 2020 still a large broken branch hanging in tree
Elsewhere on Colman Avenue
- 37 Colman Avenue, 13 reports
- 1 Colman Avenue, 9 reports
- 56 Colman Avenue, 8 reports
- 57 Colman Avenue, 5 reports
- 36 Colman Avenue, 5 reports
- 2 Colman Avenue, 5 reports
- 54 Colman Avenue, 4 reports
- 29 Colman Avenue, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colman Avenue in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Colman Avenue, 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
8 council reports on record since November 2020, most often dumped rubbish (4), street light outage (1), parks (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Colman Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, the address is inside it.