8 Leitch Street
5 council reports since June 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Leitch Street, 15 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, 292 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Bradford Park, 376 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 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, 299 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Hairpins Hairstylists, 283 m away · Hairdressers
- Milton Street Dairy, 356 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 306 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 366 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 372 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 415 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 435 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Pothole, 2
- Water Supply, 1
- Sewer General, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 20 Sept 2026 Broken tarmac
Pothole, 31 Jan 2026
Damaged Road, 13 Jan 2026 Road surface damage due to heat; the bitumen has softened.
Sewer General, 2 Aug 2022 Something is failing below ground and causing a sinkhole
Water Supply, 20 Jun 2019
Leaky water main outside of 8 Leitch Street Sydenham CHRISTCHURCH
Elsewhere on Leitch Street
- 19 Leitch Street, 15 reports
- 14 Leitch Street, 7 reports
- 1 Leitch Street, 6 reports
- 28 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 26 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 22 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 2 Leitch Street, 5 reports
- 13 Leitch Street, 5 reports
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.
Leitch 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
5 council reports on record since June 2019, most often pothole (2), water supply (1), sewer general (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Leitch Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 292 m to its edge, 3 ha.