2B Roker Street
8 council reports since February 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 36 Roker Street, 21 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, 265 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Barrington Park, 356 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 491 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
- Sydenham Cemetery, 131 m away · Cemetery
- Spreydon Library, 377 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Brides of Merivale, 58 m away · Clothing
- Denture South, 81 m away · Dentists
- Azalea Cuisine Souvlaki & Thai, 133 m away · Restaurants
- Rashid's Persian Cuisine, 133 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington St near Strauss Pl, 63 m away · route 44
- Barrington St near Strauss Pl, 79 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 66 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 121 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 230 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 278 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 278 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
- Water Leak, 2
- Pavement - General, 2
- Roads - General, 1
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Litter, 1
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
- Pavement - General, 22 Jul 2026
The bike route between Roker and Barrington St is very very slippery when icy. My husband came off his bike there yesterday. It has high use
Roads - General, 22 Mar 2026 The drop/bump here going from the cycle track to the footpath is too impactful It’s worse than the actual speed bumps further up the road.
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
- Water Leak, 4 Apr 2023
- Water Leak, 3 Apr 2023
- Litter, 2 Apr 2023
Graffiti, 13 Jun 2022- Roading/Streets, 21 Feb 2020
glass on cycleway at end of Roker as well as Barrington at Roker
Elsewhere on Roker Street
- 36 Roker Street, 21 reports
- 95 Roker Street, 7 reports
- 34 Roker Street, 7 reports
- 87 Roker Street, 6 reports
- 46 Roker Street, 6 reports
- 97 Roker Street, 5 reports
- 94 Roker Street, 5 reports
- 82 Roker Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Roker Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Roker 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
8 council reports on record since February 2020, most often water leak (2), pavement - general (2), roads - general (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Roker Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 265 m to its edge, 3 ha.