20 Sydney Street
3 council reports since December 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Sydney Street.
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, 271 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Simeon Park, 288 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 20 pieces
- Cheviot Reserve, 344 m to the edge
- Selwyn Reserve, 442 m to the edge
- Jerrold Reserve, 495 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Barrington United Bowling Club, 224 m away · Clubs
- Pies and Coffee, 353 m away · Cafés
- Bottle O Selwyn Street, 376 m away · Bottle stores
- The Bottle-O, 377 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Coronation St near Simeon St, 112 m away · route 120
- Coronation St near Simeon St, 119 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 99 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 115 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 172 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 179 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 181 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 open map’s record.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 12 Apr 2025 Developers have destroyed the footpath as part of construction work making it hard to cross for those in wheelchairs or with prams. Rules sh
Dumped Rubbish, 8 Apr 2025 Rubbish left by council contractor working on power. I cleaned it up, but shouldn’t have had to.
- Damaged Road, 28 Dec 2022
Elsewhere on Sydney Street
- 60 Sydney Street, 3 reports
- 27 Sydney Street, 3 reports
- 23 Sydney Street, 3 reports
- 7 Sydney Street, 2 reports
- 67A Sydney Street, 2 reports
- 64 Sydney Street, 2 reports
- 56 Sydney Street, 2 reports
- 30 Sydney Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sydney Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Sydney 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
3 council reports on record since December 2022, most often pavement - damaged (1), dumped rubbish (1), damaged road (1).
Spreydon, Christchurch, on Sydney Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barrington Park, 271 m to its edge, 6 ha.

