74E Main South Road
4 council reports since September 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 71 Main South Road, 40 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
- Glebe Reserve, 255 m to the edge · Botanic
- Holmes Park, 257 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 330 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Colman Reserve, 339 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, 56 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Red Cafe, 43 m away · Cafés
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 57 m away · Motels
- Red Cafe Riccarton, 61 m away · Cafés
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 66 m away · Motels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Bowman Pl, 95 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Main South Rd near English St, 130 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, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 369 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 423 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 31 Mar 2025
Pavement - General, 16 Feb 2025 Abandoned road work signs
Overgrown Vegetation, 25 Oct 2024 They left half the hedge uncut.
Road Signage, 2 Sept 2024 Sign not on property for sale at corner of main south rd
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
4 council reports on record since September 2024, most often road signage (1), pavement - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Main South Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Glebe Reserve, 255 m to its edge.



