5 Penguin Street
6 council reports since July 2019, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Penguin Street.
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
- Southshore Beach Park, 183 m to the edge · Regional · 28 ha
- Plover Reserve, 402 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.
On the doorstep
- Fu Manchu Street Food, 32 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Rocking Horse Rd near Penguin St, 60 m away · route 60
- Rocking Horse Rd near Penguin St, 70 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Southshore ran about $640 a week, $90 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
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Jul 2026 Car late at night pulled up Sat awhile & dumped rubbish Speed off tooting car horn
Accessibility, 20 Feb 2026 Rubbish from green zone
Overgrown Vegetation, 18 Sept 2025 Around red zone palm tree, the area wasn’t mowed as the palm leaves we’re a couple of metres out from the tree Usually the lawnmower people
Water Leak, 5 Jan 2025 Mains water is leaking outside house on the footpath
Street Light Outage, 4 May 2024 The last Street light on the Estuary/ red zone side of Penguin Street isn’t working. Directly out side 3 Penguin Street. Thank you
Wastewater/Stormwater, 14 Jul 2019
plugged drain in estuary
Elsewhere on Penguin Street
- 2A Penguin Street, 4 reports
- 15 Penguin Street, 4 reports
- 3A Penguin Street, 3 reports
- 20B Penguin Street, 3 reports
- 7 Penguin Street, 2 reports
- 3 Penguin Street, 2 reports
- 20A Penguin Street, 2 reports
- 20 Penguin Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Penguin Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Coastal ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Penguin Street, the whole record → · Everything about Southshore → · 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 July 2019, most often water leak (1), wastewater/stormwater (1), street light outage (1).
Southshore, Christchurch, on Penguin Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Southshore Beach Park, 183 m to its edge, 28 ha.