1 Cooke Street, Somerfield
12 reports on record since March 2018 · 9 with photographs. The most-reported address on Cooke Street. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Park - General Request — 3
- Facility - General Request — 2
- Water Supply — 1
- Water Leak — 1
- Rubbish/Recycling — 1
- Pest / Vermin — 1
Photographed here 9 on record
Reported here
Facility - General Request — There is an open drain hole here needs making safe please
Park - General Request — Damaged and hazardous drain at somerfield park in middle of where people walk and exercise.
Overgrown Vegetation — Quite a bit of datura flourishing among the graves at Sydenham cemetery.
Park - General Request — Broken drain cover. Broken leg hazard.
Pest / Vermin — Wasp nest in tree stump next to gravestone
Dumped Rubbish —
Water Leak — 2 very wet areas in Somerfield Park, possibly pipes leaking?
Abandoned Vehicle — Broken or abandoned car. This has been in position 6+ months
- Facility - General Request —
- Park - General Request —
- Rubbish/Recycling —
A lot of furniture and rubbish has been dumped in Somerfield Park right next door to the entrance at 1 Cooke St. The offenders were from 3 C
Water Supply —
Broken tap. Leaking water everyway
Also reported on Cooke Street
- 2 Cooke Street — 10 reports
- 11A Cooke Street — 6 reports
- 7 Cooke Street — 4 reports
- 11B Cooke Street — 4 reports
- 15A Cooke Street — 3 reports
- 11 Cooke Street — 3 reports
- 8 Cooke Street — 2 reports
- 24 Cooke Street — 2 reports
The green nearby
- Somerfield Park — you are in it · Sports ground · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Sydenham Cemetery — 14 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Highland Fern — 318 m away · Bottle stores
- Milton Street Dairy — 399 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Simeon St — 311 m away · route 44, route 60
- Milton St near Selwyn St — 349 m away · route 44, route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield — 102 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield — 206 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield — 246 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield — 315 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield — 425 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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 — 178 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 was here — Sydenham Cemetery
on this spot · located to ±250 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Somerfield Hall
221 m away · 47 Studholme Street · located to ±23 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
12 council reports on record since March 2018 — most often park - general request (3), facility - general request (2), water supply (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch — on Cooke Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it — Sydenham Cemetery, Somerfield Hall.
Somerfield Park — the address is inside it, 3 ha.







