2 Cooke Street
10 council reports since May 2019, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Cooke Street, 12 reports on file.
On the register here
- Sydenham Cemetery (195m)
- Somerfield Hall, 47 Studholme Street (207m)
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, you are in it · 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, 49 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Highland Fern, 363 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Simeon St, 362 m away · route 44, route 60
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 387 m away · route 44, route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 111 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 298 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 365 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 376 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- 1929–2009 / This Seat Is a Gift, 132 m away ·
1929–2009 / This seat is a gift from / St Mark’s Methodist Church / to celebrate 80 years
· 2013
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 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 10 Feb 2025 Water leak near back flow device at Somerfield Park on Woodard Tce
Water Leak, 5 Feb 2025 Lots of standing water tha normally not there. Suggest water leak.
Dumped Rubbish, 14 Jan 2025 Dump couches been sitting here for over a week now
Facility - General Request, 27 Jul 2024 Old sofa and chair dumped
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Dec 2023 Dumped mattress. In trees where cooke st meets Woodard terrace.
- Graffiti, 30 Oct 2023
- Trees - General, 18 Oct 2023
- Park - General Request, 10 Jun 2023
Parks, 30 Oct 2019
somerfield park on Woodard tce. bollard chain has no lock and is down
Graffiti, 7 May 2019
Unknown utility cabinet
Elsewhere on Cooke Street
- 1 Cooke Street, 12 reports
- 11A Cooke Street, 6 reports
- 7 Cooke Street, 4 reports
- 11B Cooke Street, 4 reports
- 15A Cooke Street, 3 reports
- 11 Cooke Street, 3 reports
- 8 Cooke Street, 2 reports
- 24 Cooke Street, 2 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.
Cooke 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
10 council reports on record since May 2019, most often water leak (2), graffiti (2), dumped rubbish (2).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Cooke Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Sydenham Cemetery, Somerfield Hall.
Somerfield Park, the address is inside it, 3 ha.