56 Somerset Crescent
10 council reports since March 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Somerset Crescent, 43 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
- Selwyn Reserve, 59 m to the edge
- Ruskin Reserve, 275 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Baxters Drain, 367 m to the edge
- Simeon Park, 370 m to the edge · 1 ha · playground, 20 pieces
- Addington Cemetery, 445 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Lenry's, 39 m away · Restaurants
- Selwyn Village Pharmacy, 49 m away · Pharmacies
- Selwyn Street Medical Centre, 52 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Celtic Arms Inn, 75 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Selwyn St Shops, 69 m away · route 60, route 120
- Selwyn St Shops, 69 m away · route 60, route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 189 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, 386 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 418 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 447 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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
- Dumped Rubbish, 4
- Water Leak, 2
- Rubbish/Recycling, 1
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Pothole, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 23 Jun 2026 pot holes in the road, and driveway needs widening
- Dumped Rubbish, 6 Oct 2023
- General Request, 26 Jun 2023
- Water Leak, 18 May 2023
- Water Leak, 15 Mar 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Mar 2023
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2022
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2022Rubbish/Recycling, 22 Jan 2020
Somebody dumped rubbish on our carparking area of the medical centre.
Roading/Streets, 23 Mar 2019
Blocked sump (90%). Very likely to cause street surface flooding in the next heavy rains.
Elsewhere on Somerset Crescent
- 53 Somerset Crescent, 43 reports
- 52 Somerset Crescent, 11 reports
- 50 Somerset Crescent, 11 reports
- 57 Somerset Crescent, 8 reports
- 42 Somerset Crescent, 7 reports
- 22 Somerset Crescent, 6 reports
- 41/53 Somerset Crescent, 5 reports
- 55 Somerset Crescent, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Somerset Crescent in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Somerset Crescent, 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
10 council reports on record since March 2019, most often dumped rubbish (4), water leak (2), rubbish/recycling (1).
Spreydon, Christchurch, on Somerset Crescent.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Selwyn Reserve, 59 m to its edge.


