1 Durham Street South
4 council reports since August 2015, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 100 Durham Street South, 35 reports on file.
On the register here
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
- Sydenham Park, 30 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Buchan Playground, 380 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Antigua Reserve, 407 m to the edge
- Bradford Park, 463 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sydenham Bowling Club, 88 m away · Bars & pubs
- Computer Concepts Limited, 105 m away · IT & software
- Sydenham Indoor Centre, 108 m away · Sports centres
- Coffee Culture Roastery on Durham, 140 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 262 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Sydenham Shops, 267 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 253 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 368 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 450 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 493 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Sydenham Park plaque, 70 m away
- This Fountain Was Moved and Resited by the City Council, 233 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS MOVED AND RESITED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF TH
· 2009
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Sydenham ran about $518 a week, $32 below 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
Traffic Signals, 4 Nov 2025 truck ran over the traffic pole
Traffic Signals, 17 Apr 2025 Reporting on behalf of someone else. Truck has hit traffic signal on street corner this afternoon (Durham st/brougham st). Possibly didn't s
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 1 Feb 2025Roading/Streets, 6 Aug 2015
Pedestrian crossing light always on when no pedestrians are there and none touched the button. Delaying the left turning traffic everytime.
Elsewhere on Durham Street South
- 100 Durham Street South, 35 reports
- 50 Durham Street South, 26 reports
- 175 Durham Street South, 23 reports
- 14 Durham Street South, 19 reports
- 52 Durham Street South, 18 reports
- 85 Durham Street South, 17 reports
- 68 Durham Street South, 13 reports
- 30 Durham Street South, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Durham Street South in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote 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.
Durham Street South, the whole record → · Everything about Sydenham → · 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 2015, most often traffic signals (2), roading/streets (1), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Durham Street South.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain and Setting.
Sydenham Park, 30 m to its edge, 5 ha.


