16 Selwyn Street
5 council reports since March 2021, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 150 Selwyn Street, 17 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED Substation, 2E Woodard Terrace (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
- Colombo Reserve, 303 m to the edge
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 334 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Somerfield Park, 377 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Thorrington Reserve, 490 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, 381 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 396 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Flowers on Cashmere, 286 m away · Florists
- Canterbury Childrens Theatre, 287 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Malthouse Costumes, 293 m away · Rental
- She Chocolaterie, 295 m away · Sweets & snacks
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Fisher Ave, 271 m away · route 1
- Aylmer St and Colombo St, 276 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 63 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 264 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 268 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 291 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 295 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
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 2
- Water Leak, 1
- General Request, 1
- Abandoned Vehicle, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 22 Jan 2026 Flooding at the corner of Selwyn and Somerfield street. Outside 98 Somerfield streets garage and gate. Guttering was cleared yesterday by ci
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 15 Nov 2025 Every rainfall this drain blocks - this has been worse since housing intensification increased in the area
Abandoned Vehicle, 1 Sept 2025 Car been parked for about a month outside property, not listed as stolen but is undrivable
- General Request, 6 Apr 2023
Water Leak, 6 Mar 2021 New box installed a couple of months ago and seems to have a slow leak but now getting worse
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
5 council reports on record since March 2021, most often street gutters / storm water (2), water leak (1), general request (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Selwyn Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED Substation.
Colombo Reserve, 303 m to its edge.