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3 council reports since May 2021, 3 carrying a photograph.
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
- Somerfield Park, 316 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, 269 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Groom Room, 87 m away · Hairdressers
- Integrated Health Care, 130 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Hillview Fish & Chips, 165 m away · Fast food
- Goat Cycles, 210 m away · Bike shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington St near Conway St, 129 m away · route 44
- Barrington St near Conway St, 144 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 12 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 40 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 202 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 404 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 405 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Roading/Streets, 1 Jun 2021 Footpath covered by bush near schools
Roading/Streets, 28 May 2021 This garden blocks half the footpath and is next to a school patrolled crossing for 2 nearby schools. You can see the worn grass where peopl
Roading/Streets, 18 May 2021 Grass verge is being used constantly as there is so much traffic before and after schools both primary and secondary
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.
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 May 2021, most often roading/streets (3).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on A.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 316 m to its edge, 3 ha.


