7 Milton Street
6 council reports since August 2019, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 81 Milton Street, 25 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
- Barrington Park, 226 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 363 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 408 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, 205 m away · Cemetery
- Spreydon Library, 252 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Azalea Cuisine Souvlaki & Thai, 28 m away · Restaurants
- Rashid's Persian Cuisine, 29 m away · Fast food
- Curry Junction, 32 m away · Restaurants
- Milton Street Takeaways, 36 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barrington Mall (Athelstan St), 93 m away · route 44, route 60, route 120
- Barrington Mall, 126 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 80 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 100 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 265 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 304 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 Supply, 2
- Water Leak, 2
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Flooding, 1
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 2 May 2026 water leak.
Water Leak, 9 Nov 2020 water has been running here for weeks. I can't believe the business here hasn't reported it.
Roading/Streets, 4 Mar 2020
? stolen car, expired registration and wof
Flooding, 12 Aug 2019
water leaking out of the drain, on the footpath
Water Supply, 12 Aug 2019
large leak in footpath
Water Supply, 8 Aug 2019
Leaking bad outside Footprints.
Elsewhere on Milton Street
- 81 Milton Street, 25 reports
- 83F Milton Street, 23 reports
- 110 Milton Street, 18 reports
- 83 Milton Street, 17 reports
- 117 Milton Street, 14 reports
- 3E Milton Street, 9 reports
- 60 Milton Street, 7 reports
- 127 Milton Street, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Milton Street in 56 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 10 seriously hurt.
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.
Milton 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
6 council reports on record since August 2019, most often water supply (2), water leak (2), roading/streets (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Milton Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barrington Park, 226 m to its edge, 6 ha.

