12 Selwyn Street
4 council reports since October 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 150 Selwyn Street, 17 reports on file.
On the register here
- The Malthouse and Setting, 69 Colombo Street (247m)
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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 295 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Colombo Reserve, 309 m to the edge
- Somerfield Park, 405 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Thorrington Reserve, 456 m to the edge · playground, 23 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
- South Christchurch Library, 345 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 362 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Canterbury Childrens Theatre, 253 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Malthouse Costumes, 258 m away · Rental
- She Chocolaterie, 259 m away · Sweets & snacks
- Flowers on Cashmere, 266 m away · Florists
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Fisher Ave, 244 m away · route 1
- Colombo St near Fisher Ave, 257 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 103 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 223 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 249 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 250 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 254 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.
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
- Water Leak, 2
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
- Water Leak, 8 Mar 2025
Hi unsure of what happened but a worker was here the other week and we lost water to house temporarily but now I have been left with this pi
Water Leak, 6 Feb 2025 Hi there, This is a continuing water leak near the boundary between our place at 12 Selwyn Street and our neighbour at 16. Cheers Martin
Rubbish and Bins - General, 5 Feb 2025 Hi there. The red bins on the section of Selwyn Street between Aylmer and Somerfield were not emptied yesterday. Cheers Martin
General Request, 16 Oct 2024 You require homeowners to maintain the berm outside our property, however, you also licence Line and other ride share modes/services to oper
Elsewhere on Selwyn Street
- 150 Selwyn Street, 17 reports
- 171 Selwyn Street, 15 reports
- 169 Selwyn Street, 9 reports
- 56 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
- 29 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
- 177 Selwyn Street, 7 reports
- 69 Selwyn Street, 6 reports
- 83 Selwyn Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Selwyn Street in 34 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Selwyn 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
4 council reports on record since October 2024, most often water leak (2), rubbish and bins - general (1), general request (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Selwyn Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, The Malthouse and Setting.
Ernle Clark Reserve, 295 m to its edge, 2 ha.


