Sparks Road

155 reports at 51 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 146 separate days somebody filed something about it.

155 reports 51 addresses146 days reported onfrom the air, then 11 documents carry the name 3 businessesthe 451st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Sparks Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Halswell.

From the air, then

Sparks Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Sparks Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sparks Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sparks Road from the air, 1975-1979 — **1975-1979** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 addresses on it

270 Sparks Road, 20 reports
246 Sparks Road, 18 reports
381 Sparks Road, 11 reports
388 Sparks Road, 8 reports
376 Sparks Road, 8 reports
458 Sparks Road, 6 reports
330A Sparks Road, 6 reports
469 Sparks Road, 5 reports
302 Sparks Road, 5 reports
488 Sparks Road, 3 reports
481 Sparks Road, 3 reports
432 Sparks Road, 3 reports
430 Sparks Road, 3 reports
401 Sparks Road, 3 reports
398 Sparks Road, 3 reports
396 Sparks Road, 3 reports
315 Sparks Road, 3 reports
275–285 Sparks Road, 3 reports
275 Sparks Road, 3 reports
494 Sparks Road, 2 reports
430-432 Sparks Road, 2 reports
381-391 Sparks Road, 2 reports
332 Sparks Road, 2 reports
275R Sparks Road, 2 reports
273-297 Sparks Road, 2 reports
498 Sparks Road, 1 report
496 Sparks Road, 1 report
490 Sparks Road, 1 report
489 Sparks Road, 1 report
486 Sparks Road, 1 report
477 Sparks Road, 1 report
474 Sparks Road, 1 report
468 Sparks Road, 1 report
464 Sparks Road, 1 report
456R Sparks Road, 1 report
456 Sparks Road, 1 report
423 Sparks Road, 1 report
407 Sparks Road, 1 report
368 Sparks Road, 1 report
357 Sparks Road, 1 report
334 Sparks Road, 1 report
330–336 Sparks Road, 1 report
330 Sparks Road, 1 report
319-337 Sparks Road, 1 report
315-275 Sparks Road, 1 report
303 Sparks Road, 1 report
291-299 Sparks Road, 1 report
287 Sparks Road, 1 report
278 Sparks Road, 1 report
276 Sparks Road, 1 report
264-280 Sparks Road, 1 report

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 45 reports
Trees & parks, 33 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 25 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 23 reports
Water & drains, 19 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Animals & pests, 4 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 1 report
2017, 1 report
2018, 2 reports
2019, 3 reports
2020, 11 reports
2021, 10 reports
2022, 19 reports
2023, 28 reports
2024, 25 reports
2025, 23 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Aerial photomosaic of Sparks Road and Hoon Hay Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Sparks Road, Hoon Hay Road, and Lyttelton Street. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
Aerial photomosaic of Halswell and Sparks Road · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1926
Aerial photomosaic of Halswell and Sparks Road. Christchurch 1926 aerial photomosaics…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 13 May 1941) · Papers Past, 13 May 1941
…mr a v poole 181 crinan street invercargill f i private leslie charles adam mr c w adam 2 sparks road cashmere i christchurch f private myles gibbons matheson mr ewan matheson box 10 otautau f corpora…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 03 January 1945) · Papers Past, 3 Jan 1945
…ms basil s lsgt mrs n e williams 17 puriri st riccarton w woods william j pte mrs m woods sparks road halswell m wounded and missing sidford stuart g lieut mr g sidford care t and w young ltd box 1251…
REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 22 Aug 2000
…sonville Pharmacy Limited Shop 3, 6 Clark Road, HOBSONVILLE Hoon Hay Pharmacy Limited 73A Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, CHRISTCHURCH Hoppers Pharmacy (1980) Limited 147 Main Street, UPPER HUTT Hornby Mall Ph…
supplement · New Zealand Gazette, 24 Aug 2001
…bsonville Pharmacy Limited Shop 3, 6 Clark Road, HOBSONVILLEHoon Hay Pharmacy Limited 73A Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, CHRISTCHURCHHoppers Pharmacy (1980) Limited 147 Main Street, UPPER HUTTHornby Mall Phar…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 4 Jul 2002
…tant, of 94 Grey Street, Hamilton, at 12.40 p.m.King, Aaron Patrick, truck driver, of 141 Sparks Road, Christchurch, at 4.40 p.m.Mitchell, Leslie James, beneficiary, of 365 Breezes Road, Aranui, Chris…
supplement · New Zealand Gazette, 16 Aug 2002
…Village Pharmacy Limited 356 Albert Street, PALMERSTON NORTHHoon Hay Pharmacy Limited 120 Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, CHRISTCHURCHHoppers Pharmacy (1980) Limited 147 Main Street, UPPER HUTTHornby Mall Phar…
REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 29 Aug 2003
…rmacy Limited 356 Albert Street, Hokowhitu, PALMERSTON NORTHHoon Hay Pharmacy Limited 120 Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, CHRISTCHURCHHoppers Pharmacy (1980) Limited 147 Main Street, UPPER HUTTHornby Mall Phar…
Register of Pharmacies · New Zealand Gazette, 27 Aug 2004
…LMERSTON NORTHHook Holdings Limited 58 Queen Street, WAIMATEHoon Hay Pharmacy Limited 120 Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, CHRISTCHURCHHoppers Pharmacy (1980) Limited 147 Main Street, UPPER HUTTHornby Mall Phar…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 3 Jul 2008
…Fleming, Elizabeth Anne), 120 Duke Street, Opotiki – 26 June 2008.Swan, Linley Ann, 4/106 Sparks Road, Hoon Hay, Christchurch – 21 June 2008.Tanginoa, Mele Moheaki, 91 Taurus Crescent, Beach Haven, No…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Sparks Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.