179 Selwyn Street
5 council reports since February 2017, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 318 Selwyn Street, 20 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
- Cheviot Reserve, 284 m to the edge
- Somerfield Park, 408 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 64 pieces
- Bradford Park, 412 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, 290 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Challenge, 50 m away · Petrol stations
- Milton Street Dairy, 61 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Riccarton Players, 247 m away · Cinemas & theatres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Selwyn St near Dobson St, 36 m away · route 60
- Milton St near Selwyn St, 82 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 33 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 374 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 380 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 380 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 388 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Spreydon ran about $555 a week, about the city median, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Aug 2026 181 selwyn
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Oct 2025 Pavement is obstructed due to overgrown vegetation
Pavement - General, 14 Jul 2025 Hello. Is it possible please to have the berms cut back as they are creeping over the footpath reducing the available width. Thanka
Graffiti, 2 Oct 2020 On the rubbish bin of the bus stop at 29050
Water Supply, 12 Feb 2017
Another leaking toby
Elsewhere on Selwyn Street
- 318 Selwyn Street, 20 reports
- 288A Selwyn Street, 17 reports
- 303 Selwyn Street, 15 reports
- 262 Selwyn Street, 13 reports
- 304 Selwyn Street, 10 reports
- 320 Selwyn Street, 9 reports
- 204 Selwyn Street, 9 reports
- 294 Selwyn Street, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Selwyn Street in 28 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 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.
Selwyn Street, the whole record → · Everything about Spreydon → · 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 February 2017, most often water supply (1), pavement - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Spreydon, Christchurch, on Selwyn Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cheviot Reserve, 284 m to its edge.



