2 Merle Place
5 council reports since July 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Merle Place.
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
- Centennial Park, 94 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 333 m to the edge
- Cashmere View Playground, 467 m to the edge · playground, 15 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
- Pioneer, 204 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Plunge Cafe, 224 m away · Cafés
- Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre, 237 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Lyttelton St, 105 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Lyttelton St near Glue Pl, 117 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 271 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.
The remembered names nearby
- In Loving Memory of / Ian Whitehead, 219 m away ·
In Loving Memory of / Ian Whitehead / Ian was the source of ideas, / an inspirational lead
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
- Roading/Streets, 2
- Water Leak, 1
- Pothole, 1
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 1 Sept 2025 Water leak in footpath outside 2 Merle Place. Silt and other fines are coming out of seal by Somerhill stone fence
- Hazard, vehicle, 24 Jun 2023
- Pothole, 22 Apr 2023
Roading/Streets, 2 Jul 2022 Cars always park over fire hydrant access
Roading/Streets, 2 Jul 2022 Cars always park over fire hydrant access
Elsewhere on Merle Place
- 4 Merle Place, 3 reports
- 3 Merle Place, 2 reports
- 7 Merle Place, 1 report
- 3-5 Merle Place, 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.
Merle Place, 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
5 council reports on record since July 2022, most often roading/streets (2), water leak (1), pothole (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Merle Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Centennial Park, 94 m to its edge, 10 ha.