477C Blenheim Road
2 council reports since November 2024, 2 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
- Vicki Reserve, 350 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Hillary Reserve, 473 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Totally Gluten Free Bakery - Sockburn, 31 m away · Delis
- Beers, 37 m away · Bars & pubs
- NZ Uniforms, 61 m away · Clothing
- Office Max - Showroom, 77 m away · Furniture
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, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 207 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 212 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
Accessibility, 4 Aug 2025 Road sign in the middle of a very narrow footpath. Obvious desire line has formed around it. Please widen the footpath around this sign post
Roads - General, 26 Nov 2024 No bike parking here. Oftentimes see bikers who have gone in to Beers and they have to use the (insecure) bus pole to secure their bike.
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
- 455R Blenheim Road, 7 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
2 council reports on record since November 2024, most often roads - general (1), accessibility (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Blenheim Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Vicki Reserve, 350 m to its edge.

