137 Barrington Street
7 council reports since May 2024, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 105 Barrington Street, 30 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
- Somerfield Park, 309 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, 257 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Integrated Health Care, 85 m away · Doctors & clinics
- The Groom Room, 112 m away · Hairdressers
- Hillview Fish & Chips, 211 m away · Fast food
- Goat Cycles, 255 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, 87 m away · route 44
- Barrington St near Conway St, 105 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 29 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 30 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 420 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 420 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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 6 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 25 Aug 2026 Speed sign has turned again. Meant to show school hours.
Road Signage, 28 Jan 2026 Speed sign at Stanbury Ave/Barrington Street has completely turned around. Currently saying Stanbury Ave is 30km only on school days.
- Flooding, 12 Jun 2025
Geofabric blocking the stormwater, left behind following road works
Road Signage, 31 Jan 2025 Speed sign is back the front. When driving on Stanbury Ave approaching Barrington St/Stanbury Ave intersection, don't know what the time lim
Overgrown Vegetation, 19 Nov 2024 Shrub obstructing footpath almost entirely. In primary school travel route.
Road Signage, 7 Nov 2024 The speed limit signs on Stanbury Ave (Barrington Rd end) do not make sense. Is it 30km in school hours only or at all times? Has one sign b
Road Signage, 7 May 2024 This sign has spun around and is now incorrectly showing speed limits and time
Elsewhere on Barrington Street
- 105 Barrington Street, 30 reports
- 93 Barrington Street, 11 reports
- 118 Barrington Street, 10 reports
- 23 Barrington Street, 9 reports
- 217b Barrington Street, 9 reports
- 100 Barrington Street, 8 reports
- 94 Barrington Street, 7 reports
- 131 Barrington Street, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Barrington Street in 51 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 12 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.
Barrington 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
7 council reports on record since May 2024, most often road signage (5), overgrown vegetation (1), flooding (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Barrington Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 309 m to its edge, 3 ha.