8 Forsyth Street
2 council reports since September 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 12 Forsyth Street, 7 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, 373 m to the edge · Sports ground · 6 ha · playground, 122 pieces
- Glynne Reserve, 383 m to the edge · playground, 3 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
- Spreydon Library, 495 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The bus nearby
- Cobham St near Evesham Cres, 221 m away · route 120
- Cobham St near Evesham Cres, 239 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 86 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 259 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 260 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Spreydon, 338 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
Dumped Rubbish, 3 Mar 2025 Mattress and other domestic rubbish on berm
Overgrown Vegetation, 15 Sept 2022
Elsewhere on Forsyth Street
- 12 Forsyth Street, 7 reports
- 1 Forsyth Street, 3 reports
- 6 Forsyth Street, 2 reports
- 9 Forsyth Street, 1 report
- 4 Forsyth Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Forsyth Street in 1 crash 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.
Forsyth 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
2 council reports on record since September 2022, most often overgrown vegetation (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Spreydon, Christchurch, on Forsyth Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Barrington Park, 373 m to its edge, 6 ha.

