56 Colman Avenue
8 council reports since April 2022, 7 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, 33 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Holmes Park, 111 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 326 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 391 m to the edge · Botanic
- Iona Reserve, 447 m to the edge · playground, 2 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, 476 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, 245 m away · Dance studios
- Belle Bonne Motel, 250 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 377 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 379 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Yaldhurst Rd near Corfe St, 268 m away · route 86, route 140
- Yaldhurst Rd near English St, 291 m away · route 86, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 401 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 414 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 421 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 6 Dec 2025 Sofa and drawer housing left on street
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 9 Oct 2025 Graffiti on alleyway fence
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Jun 2025 Graffitti on fece in walkway lane
Pavement - Damaged, 10 Jan 2025 Deep hole developing in path.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 There is more graffiti along the fences
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 There is more graffiti along the fences
- Pavement - Damaged, 11 Aug 2023
Roading/Streets, 4 Apr 2022 One or more holes creates a very load crashing noise when a vehicle & traylor drives through this part of the road due to hole or uneven roa
Elsewhere on Colman Avenue
- 37 Colman Avenue, 13 reports
- 1 Colman Avenue, 9 reports
- 47 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 April 2022, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4), pavement - damaged (2), roading/streets (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Colman Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Colman Reserve, 33 m to its edge.