8 Bowman Place
4 council reports since September 2017, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Bowman Place.
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
- Holmes Park, 144 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 29 pieces
- Glebe Reserve, 204 m to the edge · Botanic
- Colman Reserve, 244 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Vicki Reserve, 400 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Upper Riccarton Domain, 451 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 19 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, 171 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Amalfi Motor Lodge, 55 m away · Motels
- Amalfi Riccarton Motor Lodge, 59 m away · Motels
- Church Corner Nest, 135 m away · Childcare
- Red Cafe Riccarton, 136 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Main South Rd near Bowman Pl, 100 m away · route 5, route 100, route 130
- Main South Rd near English St, 104 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, 89 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 362 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 373 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 481 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
- Parks, 2
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 20 Mar 2025 This car parked at the middle of the road
- Dumped Rubbish, 28 Mar 2023
Parks, 3 Oct 2017
A few cars have been parking incorrectly at bowman place. It has been like that for a while. We can not even get our car out sometimes.
Parks, 29 Sept 2017
Neighbor had a big party and parked the car in a way which is very hard for us to get out of our driveway.
Elsewhere on Bowman Place
- 4 Bowman Place, 3 reports
- 6A Bowman Place, 2 reports
- 6 Bowman Place, 1 report
- 10 Bowman Place, 1 report
- 1 Bowman Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bowman Place in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Bowman Place, 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 2017, most often parks (2), hazard, vehicle (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Bowman Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Holmes Park, 144 m to its edge, 1 ha.