15 Orkney Street
4 council reports since August 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Orkney Street, 16 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
- Plynlimon Park, 138 m to the edge · Sports ground · 1 ha · playground, 53 pieces
- Elmwood Park, 351 m to the edge · Sports ground · 7 ha · playground, 38 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The Crater Rim, 130 m away · Bottle stores
- RJ Begg & Associates, 141 m away · Dentists
- The Elmwood Bar & Bistro, 176 m away · Restaurants
- Unichem, 189 m away · Pharmacies
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 71 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 173 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Strowan, 178 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Strowan ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 28 Jan 2026 There is quite a lot of water leaking from the water connection box outside the property. Please can you fix this?
Water Leak, 15 Dec 2025 This has been leaking for some days , I saw somebody almost slip
Hazard, vehicle, 3 Sept 2022 Car down Orkney street always parked in wrong direction. Complete confusion for learner drivers trying to drive down road. Very dangerous at
Hazard, vehicle, 22 Aug 2022 Orkney street cars always parked on the wrong side of the road. Very Dangerous at night
Elsewhere on Orkney Street
- 2 Orkney Street, 16 reports
- 6 Orkney Street, 2 reports
- 5A Orkney Street, 2 reports
- 4 Orkney Street, 2 reports
- 10 Orkney Street, 2 reports
- 14-12 Orkney Street, 1 report
- 11 Orkney Street, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Fendalton ward, the Fendalton-Waimairi-Harewood 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.
Orkney Street, the whole record → · Everything about Strowan → · 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
4 council reports on record since August 2022, most often water leak (2), hazard, vehicle (2).
Strowan, Christchurch, on Orkney Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Plynlimon Park, 138 m to its edge, 1 ha.