8/22 Lowther Street
3 council reports since April 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Lowther Street, 7 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
- Sockburn Park, 383 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Vickerys Reserve, 469 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 486 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
- Whitehouse Builders, 34 m away · Company
- Morrison Group, 55 m away · Car dealers
- Avon City Ford, 68 m away · Car dealers
- Tech Auto, 91 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Lowther St, 83 m away · route 5, route 80, route 100
- Main South Rd, 123 m away · route 100, route 5, route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 363 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 396 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, 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
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Jan 2026 Outside Avon City Ford
Dumped Rubbish, 10 Oct 2025- Graffiti, 16 Apr 2023
Elsewhere on Lowther Street
- 1 Lowther Street, 7 reports
- 22 Lowther Street, 5 reports
- 3 Lowther Street, 2 reports
- 2/22 Lowther Street, 1 report
- 1/22 Lowther Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Lowther Street in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby 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.
Lowther Street, 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
3 council reports on record since April 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1), graffiti (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Lowther Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Sockburn Park, 383 m to its edge, 2 ha.

