2 Bengal Drive

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

• Ashgrove Reserve, 43 m to the edge
• Worsleys Reserve, 250 m to the edge
• Bengal Reserve, 320 m to the edge
• Cracroft Caverns Reserve, 398 m to the edge · Regional
• Centennial Park, 460 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Courtyard Cafe, 221 m away · Cafés
• Princess Margaret Hospital, 241 m away · Hospital
• Poca Poca, 295 m away · Cafés
• Shalamar Florist, 301 m away · Florists

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Cashmere Rd near Ferniehurst St, 26 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
• Cashmere Rd near Ferniehurst St, 30 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 38 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 66 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Cashmere, 367 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Welcome to Ashgrove Reserve If You’D Have a Mind at Peace, 53 m away · WELCOME TO ASHGROVE RESERVE IF YOU’D HAVE A MIND AT PEACE A HEART THAT CANNOT HARDEN GO FI · 2025

Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.

Renting nearby

new bonds in Cashmere ran about $707 a week, $157 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Water Leak, 1
• Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 1
• Road Blockage, 1
• Pavement - General, 1
• Overgrown Vegetation, 1
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1

Photographed here 6 on record

more photographs
on the Cashmere wall →

What’s on record

• Road Blockage, 7 Oct 2026 Needless signs in cycleway causing more of a hazard than they are trying to warn about
• Damaged Street Sign, 10 May 2026 Street sign has ended up in the river ??
• Overgrown Vegetation, 14 Dec 2025 Could you please remove the elm tree branches I’ve trimmed off the large tree which borders 1/1 Bengal drive. I’m the landlord for there and
• Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 28 Jun 2025 Liquid bubbling out of sewer manhole lid and running across the road and into the Heathcote River.
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 20 Apr 2024 I’m n the white fence next to Smarts Bridge on Fernside
• Pavement - General, 26 Jul 2023
• Fallen Tree, 16 Jun 2023
• Graffiti, 10 Jul 2022
• Water Leak, 4 Jul 2021 water leak outside number 2 Bengal

Elsewhere on Bengal Drive

• 1 Bengal Drive, 11 reports
• 20 Bengal Drive, 5 reports
• 50 Bengal Drive, 3 reports
• 6 Bengal Drive, 2 reports
• 41 Bengal Drive, 2 reports
• 37 Bengal Drive, 2 reports
• 22 Bengal Drive, 2 reports
• 66 Bengal Drive, 1 report

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Bengal Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.