87 Roker Street
6 council reports since May 2018, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 36 Roker Street, 21 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, 294 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 383 m to the edge
- Bradford Park, 402 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, 212 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Milton Street Dairy, 89 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Challenge, 147 m away · Petrol stations
- Riccarton Players, 382 m away · Cinemas & theatres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 124 m away · route 44
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 124 m away · route 44, route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 102 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 371 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 374 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 394 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 410 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
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 2 Jan 2026 Pothole
Pavement - General, 14 May 2025 Hi please can you make the curb transition here smoother? It’s incredibly sharp and taking my child through here on a cargo bike. I have to
Pothole, 24 Dec 2023 Pothole 20 x 20cm on left side of road heading towards sydenham
Roading/Streets, 25 Aug 2020 this has been like this for over a year now, it needs garden maintenance and a tidy up. it's a shame when all this effort has been made to i
Flooding, 13 Nov 2019
Wastewater/Stormwater, 10 May 2018
Leaking water from unknown source on footpath area. Please have assessed on behalf of pictured elderly neighbour - Eric Prewer. This is a ha
Elsewhere on Roker Street
- 36 Roker Street, 21 reports
- 2B Roker Street, 8 reports
- 95 Roker Street, 7 reports
- 34 Roker Street, 7 reports
- 46 Roker Street, 6 reports
- 97 Roker Street, 5 reports
- 94 Roker Street, 5 reports
- 82 Roker Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Roker Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Roker 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 May 2018, most often pothole (2), wastewater/stormwater (1), roading/streets (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Roker Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Somerfield Park, 294 m to its edge, 3 ha.