70 Epsom Road
8 council reports since March 2017, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 87 Epsom Road, 26 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
- Paparua Stream Reserve, 16 m to the edge
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 177 m to the edge
- Gloaming Reserve, 272 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces
- Chokebore Reserve, 342 m to the edge · Botanic
- Showgate Reserve, 494 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Avonhead Automotive, 122 m away · Car repair
- Grand Prix Cafe, 122 m away · Cafés
- Racecourse Dairy, 126 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Georgio’s Café, 130 m away · Cafés
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, 362 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 413 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
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
- Roading/Streets, 3
- Graffiti, 3
- Water General, 2
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Water General, 12 Sept 2025 Loose lid on meter box
Water General, 21 Feb 2025 Cover is broken and has dislodged, danger to walkers
Roading/Streets, 13 Aug 2018
I have rung several times to get gutters cleared, but it never gets done.
Roading/Streets, 21 Jul 2018
I rang Council over 4 told so about blocked drain and flooding during heavy rain. Rubbish got pulled out and put on grass verge. Rang back c
Graffiti, 29 Mar 2018
Graffiti, 29 Mar 2018
Roading/Streets, 14 Feb 2018
driveway outside 70 Epsom Road
Graffiti, 30 Mar 2017
Elsewhere on Epsom Road
- 87 Epsom Road, 26 reports
- 87D Epsom Road, 9 reports
- 85 Epsom Road, 9 reports
- 42 Epsom Road, 8 reports
- 24 Epsom Road, 6 reports
- 80 Epsom Road, 5 reports
- 32 Epsom Road, 5 reports
- 89 Epsom Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Epsom Road in 23 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.
Epsom 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
8 council reports on record since March 2017, most often roading/streets (3), graffiti (3), water general (2).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Epsom Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, 16 m to its edge.

