4B Murfitt Place
8 council reports since January 2019, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Murfitt Place.
On the register here
- Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting, 165J Racecourse Road (178m)
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
- Showgate Reserve, you are in it
- Peebles Reserve, 161 m to the edge · playground, 40 pieces
- Buchanans Reserve, 174 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 346 m to the edge
- Kinross Reserve, 409 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
- Riccarton Park and Function Centre, 251 m away · Venues & events
- Riccarton Rotary Market, 271 m away · Marketplace
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 250 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Peebles Dr, 268 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Peebles Reserve plaque, 175 m away ·
Wigram Lions Club donated this seat / to the Christchurch community / in memory of (illegi
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
Pavement - General, 8 Feb 2025 Broken glass bottle on bike path. Lots of little bits not visible in the photo On the bike path beside the bridge
Poles and Signage - General, 11 Nov 2024 Planting trees in your area consult ended months ago. Sign needs removed.
Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Dec 2023 Off showgate av and Murfitt place a absolute disgrace over grown greenway
- Fallen Tree, 16 Jan 2023
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 26 Oct 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 12 Apr 2022
Rubbish/Recycling, 8 Dec 2021Graffiti, 31 Jan 2019
On building backing on to pylon corridor by racecourse, just east of peebles reserve on peebles drive
Elsewhere on Murfitt Place
- 4A Murfitt Place, 3 reports
- 2 Murfitt Place, 3 reports
- 5 Murfitt Place, 1 report
- 2E Murfitt Place, 1 report
- 12 Murfitt Place, 1 report
- 10 Murfitt Place, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Murfitt Place, 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 January 2019, most often rubbish/recycling (2), rubbish and bins - general (1), poles and signage - general (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Murfitt Place.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Riccarton Racecourse Tea House and Setting.
Showgate Reserve, the address is inside it.




