9 Strauss Place
6 council reports since January 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 11 Strauss Place, 10 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, 341 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Somerfield Park, 413 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 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, 298 m away · Cemetery
- Spreydon Library, 362 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Brides of Merivale, 126 m away · Clothing
- Denture South, 131 m away · Dentists
- London Canteen, 170 m away · Cafés
- Milton Street Takeaways, 174 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Frankleigh St near Alvarez Pl, 43 m away · route 60, route 120, the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- Frankleigh St near Alvarez Pl, 51 m away · route 60, route 120, the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 53 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 98 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 221 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 428 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Somerfield, 442 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 26 May 2026 glass on road down strauss place multiple locations after car break ins
Water Leak, 22 Jun 2025 Water leak from meter over footpath New in last couple of weeks Less than a garden hose
Water Leak, 4 Aug 2024 Water leak at meter
- Water General, 4 Jan 2024
No water at taps. Water meter gauge not turning
- Hazard, vehicle, 12 Apr 2023
- Trees - General, 12 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Strauss Place
- 11 Strauss Place, 10 reports
- 2 Strauss Place, 6 reports
- 18 Strauss Place, 4 reports
- 4A Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 16A Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 14 Strauss Place, 2 reports
- 8 Strauss Place, 1 report
- 6 Strauss Place, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Strauss Place in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Strauss Place, 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 January 2023, most often water leak (2), water general (1), trees - general (1).
Somerfield, Christchurch, on Strauss Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barrington Park, 341 m to its edge, 6 ha.