18 Tainui Street
2 council reports since May 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 14 Tainui Street, 6 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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 382 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Somerfield Park, 388 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Thorrington Reserve, 409 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
- Cashmere Riverbank Reserve, 458 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Piccolo Ristorante Italiano, 112 m away · Restaurants
- Chim Don Don, 126 m away · Restaurants
- Blink Hair Design, 153 m away · Hairdressers
- Pierces' Bakery, 155 m away · Bakeries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 77 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 162 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 230 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 365 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
- Water Leak, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Aug 2026 Abandoned shopping basket
Water Leak, 27 May 2022 Water rising from the grass verge and running off
Elsewhere on Tainui Street
- 14 Tainui Street, 6 reports
- 20 Tainui Street, 4 reports
- 16 Tainui Street, 3 reports
- 53 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 28 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 17 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 43 Tainui Street, 1 report
- 40-30 Tainui Street, 1 report
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.
Tainui 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
2 council reports on record since May 2022, most often water leak (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Tainui Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ernle Clark Reserve, 382 m to its edge, 2 ha.

