88A Racecourse Road
5 council reports since March 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 3 Racecourse Road, 27 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, 182 m to the edge
- Buchanans Reserve, 234 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Showgate Reserve, 316 m to the edge
- Paparua Stream Reserve No. 2, 453 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, 256 m away · Venues & events
- Bluechip Motors, 279 m away · Car dealers
- The Racecourse Hotel & Motor Lodge, 282 m away · Hotels
- Hoofbeats Bar and Bistro - The Racecourse Hotel, 295 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Buchanans Rd near Racecourse Rd, 54 m away · route 130
- Buchanans Rd near Racecourse Rd, 74 m away · route 130
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 234 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 291 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sockburn, 403 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
- Water Leak, 3
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
- Water Leak, 6 Jan 2025
Water leak from under the road, has left a hole in the road, prevoliously sent a snap about it and said it would be looked at by 6th Jan. L
Damaged Road, 2 Jan 2025 Large pot hole and leaking water
Water Leak, 23 Dec 2024 Damage to road and water is leaving out of the road from underneath.
Dumped Rubbish, 18 Nov 2024 Neighbours put their mattresses outside last week and refuse to move them even after we asked them to. They belong to 86 Racecourse Road
Water Leak, 8 Mar 2024
Elsewhere on Racecourse Road
- 3 Racecourse Road, 27 reports
- 1 Racecourse Road, 8 reports
- 118 Racecourse Road, 7 reports
- 114 Racecourse Road, 7 reports
- 82 Racecourse Road, 6 reports
- 130 Racecourse Road, 6 reports
- 35 Racecourse Road, 5 reports
- 210 Racecourse Road, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Racecourse Road in 59 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 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.
Racecourse 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
5 council reports on record since March 2024, most often water leak (3), dumped rubbish (1), damaged road (1).
Sockburn, Christchurch, on Racecourse Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Paparua Stream Reserve, 182 m to its edge.



