2 Strauss Place
6 council reports since August 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 11 Strauss Place, 10 reports on file.
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, 331 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Barrington Park, 353 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, 213 m away · Cemetery
- Spreydon Library, 373 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Brides of Merivale, 59 m away · Clothing
- Denture South, 80 m away · Dentists
- Milton Street Takeaways, 142 m away · Fast food
- Curry Junction, 144 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington St near Strauss Pl, 27 m away · route 44
- Barrington St near Strauss Pl, 29 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 107 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 227 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 361 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 362 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 2 Feb 2026 Please trim back these plants that are encroaching on the bike lane,
Overgrown Vegetation, 3 Jul 2025 Bicycle lane activation area for crossing lights at Barrington Street is covered by plants from the adjacent traffic island so prevents cycl
Pavement - General, 14 May 2025 Hi please can you make the curb transition here smoother? It’s incredibly sharp and taking my child through here on a cargo bike. I have to
- Roads - General, 28 Aug 2023
Roading/Streets, 23 Feb 2022 Hi CCC Team, The plants are over grown over the cycleway at the barrington / strauss place intersection. Meaning that it is difficult to cy
Roading/Streets, 11 Aug 2021 Cars parked on footpath and double parked on both sides of the street
Elsewhere on Strauss Place
- 11 Strauss Place, 10 reports
- 9 Strauss Place, 6 reports
- 18 Strauss Place, 4 reports
- 4A Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 16A Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 14 Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 8 Strauss Place, 1 report
- 6 Strauss Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Strauss Place in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Strauss 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
6 council reports on record since August 2021, most often roading/streets (2), overgrown vegetation (2), roads - general (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Strauss Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 331 m to its edge, 3 ha.