5 Sparks Road
2 council reports since March 2022, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Sparks Road, 22 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
- Centennial Park, 141 m to the edge · Sports ground · 10 ha · playground, 37 pieces
- Hoon Hay Scouts Reserve, 338 m to the edge
- Rydal Reserve, 485 m to the edge · playground, 3 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
- Pioneer, 297 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Plunge Cafe, 301 m away · Cafés
- Pioneer Recreation and Sport Centre, 313 m away · Sports centres
- Lyttelton Street Dairy, 334 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Stourbridge Fish & Chips, 338 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Lyttelton St near Glue Pl, 45 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
- Lyttelton St, 60 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 51 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 177 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
- Graffiti, 2
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Elsewhere on Sparks Road
- 2 Sparks Road, 22 reports
- 1 Sparks Road, 12 reports
- 48 Sparks Road, 9 reports
- 52 Sparks Road, 7 reports
- 29 Sparks Road, 7 reports
- 27–29 Sparks Road, 6 reports
- 39A Sparks Road, 5 reports
- 25 Sparks Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sparks Road in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Spreydon 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.
Sparks Road, 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
2 council reports on record since March 2022, most often graffiti (2).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Sparks Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Centennial Park, 141 m to its edge, 10 ha.