15 Penrith Avenue
6 council reports since August 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 50 Penrith Avenue, 10 reports on file.
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
- Bradford Park, 298 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 340 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, 324 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Milton Street Dairy, 210 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Challenge, 254 m away · Petrol stations
- Hairpins Hairstylists, 288 m away · Hairdressers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 210 m away · route 44
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 221 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 212 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 274 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 347 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 469 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Aug 2026 Trip hazard. Uneven grass verge where diggers have driven over verge. I have reported trip hazard to site manager but no action has been tak
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 27 Jul 2026 The drain always gets clogged with leafs and the water doesn’t flow away. When the road surface team were around they did say it was with th
Damaged Road, 2 Jul 2026 Poor quality of a newly sealed road. The asphalt has cracks dips and lumps peeling off
Damaged Road, 30 Jun 2026 Penrith Ave has just been reseal and to say the finish is of poor quality it an understand. Theres dips and crack where the preparation wasn
- Accessibility, 5 Aug 2023
- Accessibility, 5 Aug 2023
Elsewhere on Penrith Avenue
- 50 Penrith Avenue, 10 reports
- 40 Penrith Avenue, 3 reports
- 49 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
- 45 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
- 43 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
- 42 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
- 39 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
- 38 Penrith Avenue, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Penrith Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Penrith Avenue, 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
6 council reports on record since August 2023, most often damaged road (2), accessibility (2), street gutters / storm water (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Penrith Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bradford Park, 298 m to its edge, 3 ha.



