18 Leitch Street
3 council reports since January 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Leitch Street, 15 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
- Somerfield Park, 325 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Bradford Park, 351 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Colombo Reserve, 486 m to the edge
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, 333 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Hairpins Hairstylists, 252 m away · Hairdressers
- Milton Street Dairy, 374 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 379 m away · route 44
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 392 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 274 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 354 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 384 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 447 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 461 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 2 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Road, 10 Dec 2024 One hot day & chip seal laid has turned to liquid tar with pothole. Leitch St needs to be redone properly, for long term use, especially wit
- Water Leak, 24 Jan 2023
Roading/Streets, 4 Jan 2022 Asphalt lifting on road
Elsewhere on Leitch Street
- 19 Leitch Street, 15 reports
- 14 Leitch Street, 7 reports
- 1 Leitch Street, 6 reports
- 8 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 28 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 26 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 22 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 2 Leitch Street, 5 reports
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.
Leitch 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
3 council reports on record since January 2022, most often water leak (1), roading/streets (1), damaged road (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Leitch Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 325 m to its edge, 3 ha.

