7 Main South Road
10 council reports since May 2017, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 71 Main South Road, 40 reports on file.
On the register here
- St Peter's Church & Setting, 24 Main South Road (78m)
- St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting, 24 Main South Road (80m)
- St Peter's Church Lychgate and Setting, 25 Yaldhurst Road (142m)
- J.R. McKenzie Memorial Children's Library and Setting, 393 Riccarton Road (143m)
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
- Hansons Reserve, 226 m to the edge · playground, 42 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 371 m to the edge · Botanic
- Auburn Reserve, 422 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 445 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Hillary Reserve, 480 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
- Sunrise Bed and Breakfast, 26 m away · B&Bs
- Horse and Jockey, 96 m away · Bars & pubs
- Alpine Hotel, 98 m away · Hotels
- Mediterranean Style Souvlaki, 98 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Curletts Rd, 32 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Yaldhurst Rd near Angela St, 93 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, 26 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 257 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 258 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 259 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 304 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
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 19 Nov 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Nov 2025 Black bag of trash
- Dumped Rubbish, 18 Jun 2025
Rubbish dumped near cycle way
Water Leak, 2 Jun 2025 Water leaking in front of the house #5 on Main South Road, Christchurch 8041
Dumped Rubbish, 2 Jan 2025 In the alleyway hard to miss
Graffiti somewhere else, 18 Oct 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Aug 2024- Pit and Equipment - General, 16 Oct 2023
- Graffiti, 2 Apr 2023
Graffiti, 7 May 2017
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
10 council reports on record since May 2017, most often dumped rubbish (4), graffiti (2), water leak (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, St Peter's Church & Setting, St Peter's Church Graveyard and Setting.
Hansons Reserve, 226 m to its edge.