24B Thorrington Road

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, 20 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
• Thorrington Reserve, 34 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
• Purau Reserve, 486 m to the edge

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf nearby

• South Christchurch Library, 463 m away · Library
• Beckenham Service Centre, 487 m away · Service centre

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• Z, 338 m away · Petrol stations
• Beckenham Cycles, 344 m away · Bike shops
• Thorrington Chinese Takeaways, 345 m away · Fast food
• Thorrington Dairy, 346 m away · Dairies & convenience

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Cashmere Rd near Thorrington Rd, 300 m away · route 1, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
• Colombo St near Thorrington Rd, 343 m away · route 1

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 4 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 48 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 49 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 147 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

• Litter, 3
• Dumped Rubbish, 2
• Overgrown Vegetation, 1
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 1
• General Request, 1

Photographed here 9 on record

more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

What’s on record

• Dumped Rubbish, 17 Jun 2026 Dumped rubbish
• Litter, 8 May 2026 Road cone in river
• Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Apr 2026 Please cut back the shrubs along the entrance to the bridge at the Ernlea Clarke Reserve on Ashgrove Terrace. It is difficult for both pede
• Litter, 31 Jan 2026 junk from hut in reserve left on Ashgrove Terrace by bridge entrance for CCC to collect.
• Dumped Rubbish, 28 Jan 2026 Dumped rubbish behind the sign.
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 14 Dec 2025 Graffiti on pedestrian foot bridge which runs from Ashgrove Terrace to Ernle Clarke Reserve. Guard rails on both sides of bridge have multi
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 14 Dec 2025 Graffiti on Ernle Clark Reserve sign on Ashgrove Terrace, Somerfield. Graffiti is on white support pole on right hand side of sign. Graffiti
• Litter, 28 Sept 2025 Discarded CRT television set (litter) on riverbank behind Orion kiosk on Ashgrove Terrace, near Studholme Street, Somerfield, Christchurch.
• General Request, 31 Jan 2025 Abandoned motor bike, no plates

Elsewhere on Thorrington Road

• 44 Thorrington Road, 5 reports
• 30B Thorrington Road, 4 reports
• 38A Thorrington Road, 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.