3 Holcombe Place
4 council reports since July 2020, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Holcombe 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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 181 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Thorrington Reserve, 202 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 469 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Cashmere Riverbank Reserve, 490 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, 341 m away · Restaurants
- Chim Don Don, 355 m away · Restaurants
- Pierces' Bakery, 376 m away · Bakeries
- I Spy Food and Coffee, 377 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Cashmere Rd near Thorrington Rd, 410 m away · route 1, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Cashmere Rd, 413 m away · route 1, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 57 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 164 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 222 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 222 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 233 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 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 24 Feb 2026 Overgrown vegetation
Litter, 22 Jan 2025 Hi, there's a couch, cones, fence, trolley and few smaller rubbish things been here for well over 2 weeks looking aweful
Water General, 20 Nov 2024 Missing Tap Box lid - over water going into 3B Holcombe Place? Hidden in longer grass so trip hazard on front curb?
Rubbish/Recycling, 3 Jul 2020
Elsewhere on Holcombe Place
- 4 Holcombe Place, 2 reports
- 11 Holcombe Place, 2 reports
- 9 Holcombe Place, 1 report
- 3A Holcombe 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.
Holcombe 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
4 council reports on record since July 2020, most often water general (1), rubbish/recycling (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Holcombe Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ernle Clark Reserve, 181 m to its edge, 2 ha.



