71 Somerfield Street
8 council reports since March 2019, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 96 Somerfield Street, 17 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED Substation, 2E Woodard Terrace (51m)
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, 220 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 389 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Thorrington Reserve, 442 m to the edge · playground, 23 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
- Sydenham Cemetery, 413 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 12 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, 251 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 355 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 406 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.
The remembered names nearby
- 1929–2009 / This Seat Is a Gift, 235 m away ·
1929–2009 / This seat is a gift from / St Mark’s Methodist Church / to celebrate 80 years
· 2013
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
- Rubbish/Recycling, 2
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Parks, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Facility - General Request, 29 Apr 2026 hello. please collect and remove green waste, branches, and bark from reserve at corner of Woodard Tce and Somerfield St. thank you. total a
- Pavement - Damaged, 31 Aug 2023
Parks, 5 Nov 2019
Was out walking snd came across thiss reserve, windy day and large Bluegum tree's are dropping bark etc and ivey is growing rampant. A loca
Rubbish/Recycling, 23 Sept 2019
Rubbish/Recycling, 22 Sept 2019
dumped over night.
Graffiti, 19 Jul 2019
Water Supply, 17 Mar 2019
Water is flowing
Water Supply, 2 Mar 2019
Leaking toby, 67 somerfield st
Elsewhere on Somerfield Street
- 96 Somerfield Street, 17 reports
- 5 Somerfield Street, 15 reports
- 15 Somerfield Street, 14 reports
- 38 Somerfield Street, 10 reports
- 114 Somerfield Street, 10 reports
- 107 Somerfield Street, 8 reports
- 98 Somerfield Street, 7 reports
- 21 Somerfield Street, 7 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Somerfield Street in 21 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.
Somerfield 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 March 2019, most often water supply (2), rubbish/recycling (2), pavement - damaged (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Somerfield Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED Substation.
Somerfield Park, 220 m to its edge, 3 ha.