1 Bard Street
5 council reports since December 2019, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 5 Bard Street, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
- Somerfield Hall, 47 Studholme Street (133m)
- MED Substation, 2E Woodard Terrace (179m)
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
- Somerfield Park, 35 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 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
- Sydenham Cemetery, 237 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Groom Room, 356 m away · Hairdressers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 39 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 59 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 199 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 430 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 432 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.
The remembered names nearby
- 1929–2009 / This Seat Is a Gift, 63 m away ·
1929–2009 / This seat is a gift from / St Mark’s Methodist Church / to celebrate 80 years
· 2013
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Somerfield ran about $567 a week, $17 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 bus stop or public toilet, 4 Aug 2025 Somerfield toilets exterior and inside Mens toilet
Rubbish and Bins - General, 26 Nov 2024 Red bin didn't get fully emptied this morning. Have left at curb for emptying. Cheers
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 16 Jan 2024
Green bin not fully emptied. Have left on street for recollection
Rubbish/Recycling, 2 Dec 2020 our green bin wasn't emptied on rubbish day yesterday. could this please be emptied?
Water Supply, 1 Dec 2019
Elsewhere on Bard Street
- 5 Bard Street, 10 reports
- 7 Bard Street, 9 reports
- 9 Bard Street, 3 reports
- 5A Bard Street, 1 report
- 11 Bard Street, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Bard Street, the whole record → · Everything about Somerfield → · 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 December 2019, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), water supply (1), rubbish/recycling (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Bard Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Somerfield Hall, MED Substation.
Somerfield Park, 35 m to its edge, 3 ha.