1 Glue Place
3 council reports since April 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 9 Glue Place, 7 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Centennial Park, 84 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 286 m to the edge
- Rydal Reserve, 486 m to the edge · playground, 3 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
- Pioneer, 197 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Plunge Cafe, 208 m away · Cafés
- Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre, 221 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Lyttelton St, 75 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Lyttelton St near Glue Pl, 78 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 129 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 201 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Loving Memory of / Ian Whitehead, 194 m away ·
In Loving Memory of / Ian Whitehead / Ian was the source of ideas, / an inspirational lead
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Jan 2026 mattress
Road Signage, 7 Oct 2024 I think the signage is wrong because in one direction it wants you to go thirty and the other direction it wants you to go 50. There's a few
Graffiti somewhere else, 7 Apr 2024
Elsewhere on Glue Place
- 9 Glue Place, 7 reports
- 2 Glue Place, 7 reports
- 10 Glue Place, 4 reports
- 36 Glue Place, 3 reports
- 13 Glue Place, 3 reports
- 27 Glue Place, 1 report
- 19 Glue Place, 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.
Glue Place, 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
3 council reports on record since April 2024, most often road signage (1), graffiti somewhere else (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Glue Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Centennial Park, 84 m to its edge, 10 ha.


