2 Dobson Street
6 council reports since January 2024, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Dobson Street.
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
- Cheviot Reserve, 165 m to the edge
- Somerfield Park, 378 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Barrington Park, 414 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 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, 230 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Milton Street Dairy, 221 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Challenge, 230 m away · Petrol stations
- Riccarton Players, 295 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- The Laundry Basket, 302 m away · Laundromats
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 113 m away · route 44, route 60
- Milton St near Simeon St, 132 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, 62 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 201 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 208 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 287 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 345 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jul 2024 Two piles of rubbish in the accessway one at the Milton Street end and the other about halfway down another pile of stuff at the Dobson Stre
Dumped Rubbish, 25 Jun 2024 It happens every week
Dumped Rubbish, 3 Apr 2024 It happens often
Dumped Rubbish, 2 Feb 2024 This alleyway is in some dire need of TLC. There’s anything from dog poo, nappies, wipes, trollies, takeaway containers, trolley to TV.
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Feb 2024 It always happens almost every day or every week
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Jan 2024 It happens often sometimes like every few nights
Elsewhere on Dobson Street
- 6A Dobson Street, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon 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.
Dobson 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
6 council reports on record since January 2024, most often dumped rubbish (6).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Dobson Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cheviot Reserve, 165 m to its edge.





