20 Tainui Street
4 council reports since December 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 14 Tainui Street, 6 reports on file.
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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 367 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Thorrington Reserve, 395 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 404 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Cashmere Riverbank Reserve, 442 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Piccolo Ristorante Italiano, 119 m away · Restaurants
- Chim Don Don, 133 m away · Restaurants
- Pierces' Bakery, 158 m away · Bakeries
- I Spy Food and Coffee, 159 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 95 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 349 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 370 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.
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Aug 2026 Tree roots have been gradually pushing up and cracking pavement causing a trip hazard for pedestrians.
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Aug 2026 A previously repaired gutter has crumbled after being driven over.
Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Jan 2026 Branches from the tree on grass verge are growing towards the overhead lines. Almost touching them now.
Pothole, 21 Dec 2024 Damaged gutter which builds up with debris during rain events.
Elsewhere on Tainui Street
- 14 Tainui Street, 6 reports
- 16 Tainui Street, 3 reports
- 53 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 28 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 18 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 17 Tainui Street, 2 reports
- 43 Tainui Street, 1 report
- 40-30 Tainui Street, 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.
Tainui 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
4 council reports on record since December 2024, most often pavement - damaged (2), pothole (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Tainui Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ernle Clark Reserve, 367 m to its edge, 2 ha.



