85 Epsom Road
9 council reports since April 2023, 7 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, you are in it
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 274 m to the edge
- Gloaming Reserve, 344 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces
- Chokebore Reserve, 353 m to the edge · Botanic
- Showgate Reserve, 396 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
- Racecourse Riccarton, 57 m away · Venues & events
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 57 m away · Hotels
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 75 m away · Restaurants
- Carbine Lounge & Bar - The Racecourse Hotel, 86 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Racecourse Rd near O'briens Rd, 96 m away · route 130
- Epsom Rd near Carbine Pl, 98 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 384 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 438 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
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 22 Sept 2025 graffiti on the bridge
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 20 Sept 2025 Bridgeoncycleway between Epsom’s and racecourses
Litter, 15 Sept 2025 Rubbish in the stream in the Paparua reserve
Water Fountain, 30 Nov 2024 Wheres the water?? Been almost 12mths infrequently has a lillte dribbles, use to always have water, now over growing messy
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 28 Apr 2024 Graffiti on a fence in the park. South express MCR.
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 28 Apr 2024 Graffiti on a fence in a park. South express MCR.
Overgrown Vegetation, 13 Jan 2024 Over grown the path, this is a cycle way and foot path combined, this is unsafe
- Overgrown Vegetation, 14 Oct 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 16 Apr 2023
Elsewhere on Epsom Road
- 87 Epsom Road, 26 reports
- 87D Epsom Road, 9 reports
- 70 Epsom Road, 8 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 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.
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
9 council reports on record since April 2023, most often overgrown vegetation (3), graffiti on a playground or in a park (2), water fountain (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Epsom Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, the address is inside it.