8A Young Street
6 council reports since June 2018, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Young Street, 11 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
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 35 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Thorrington Reserve, 178 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
- South Christchurch Library, 304 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 329 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- She Chocolaterie, 253 m away · Sweets & snacks
- Malthouse Costumes, 273 m away · Rental
- Canterbury Childrens Theatre, 277 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Opawa Farmers' Market, 289 m away · Markets
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, the line crosses here · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 52 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 106 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 183 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 194 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.
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
Fallen Tree, 30 Jan 2025 Hi. Not quite fallen but looks likely to fall soon into roadway Visible from Young st but on Ashgrove tce
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Jan 2025 Looks like an armchair has been dumped into the river.
Damaged Road, 15 Oct 2024 So I’ve lived in this area for 12 years , this road / intersection is tooo wide & im sick of cars doing donuts in the middle of the night. T
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 16 Sept 2024 Graffiti on white timber barrier in two places and also on rear face of "diverge" street sign located at Ashgrove Terrace on river bank at e
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Jul 2024 Graffiti (2x stickers) on street sign on riverbank at Ashgrove Terrace end of Young Street, Somerfield.
Parks, 7 Jun 2018
Rubbish dumped along Heathcote river bank. Mostly car parts. End of Young street.
Elsewhere on Young Street
- 1 Young Street, 11 reports
- 37A Young Street, 6 reports
- 28 Young Street, 4 reports
- 35A Young Street, 3 reports
- 25 Young Street, 3 reports
- 18 Young Street, 3 reports
- 30 Young Street, 2 reports
- 17A Young Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Young Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Young 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 June 2018, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), parks (1), fallen tree (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Young Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Ernle Clark Reserve, 35 m to its edge, 2 ha.




