51 Main South Road
5 council reports since November 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 71 Main South Road, 40 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Huntley, 67 Yaldhurst Road (249m)
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
- Glebe Reserve, 27 m to the edge · Botanic
- Holmes Park, 194 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 305 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 392 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Colman Reserve, 422 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
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, 302 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Asure Bush Inn Court Motel, 47 m away · Motels
- Academy Funerals, 87 m away · Funeral directors
- Amiable Legal, 121 m away · Lawyers
- Church Corner Nest, 144 m away · Childcare
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near English St, 10 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Main South Rd near Curletts Rd, 56 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 16 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 133 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 426 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
- Dumped Rubbish, 2
- Water Leak, 1
- Parks, 1
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2026 Kia Ora. There is some litter left beside the bus stop rubbish bin in front of 51 Main South Road. A cardboard box, a rubbish bag and sever
Dumped Rubbish, 12 Jun 2026 Kia Ora. There were littering and rubbish dump in the bus stop near 51 main south road, Sockburn. Nga mihi
Litter, 2 Apr 2026 Address of the incident: 51 Main South Road, Sockburn, Christchurch 8042 I would like to report an issue regarding a public rubbish bin tha
Water Leak, 2 Apr 2026 Leak
Parks, 21 Nov 2021 Glass on path in glebe reserve near main south road entrance, covers most of the path.
Elsewhere on Main South Road
- 71 Main South Road, 40 reports
- 9 Main South Road, 36 reports
- 30 Main South Road, 33 reports
- 33 Main South Road, 30 reports
- 158 Main South Road, 30 reports
- 193 Main South Road, 18 reports
- 138 Main South Road, 16 reports
- 125 Main South Road, 16 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main South Road in 167 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 24 seriously hurt.
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.
Main South 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
5 council reports on record since November 2021, most often dumped rubbish (2), water leak (1), parks (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Huntley.
Glebe Reserve, 27 m to its edge.




