13 Elgin Street
11 council reports since February 2018, 10 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Elgin Street, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (181m)
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, 216 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Buchan Playground, 221 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Cycle Trading Co Ltd, 46 m away · Bike shops
- Hello Sunday, 51 m away · Restaurants
- 5th Street, 59 m away · Restaurants
- Metro Gold & Academy Cinema, 61 m away · Cinemas & theatres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 175 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 180 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, 161 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 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 10 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 24 Jun 2025 Scooter parked on yellow lines Rego: C8ZNL
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Damaged car park boundary fence to replace or repair
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Missing berm to replace with damaged storm water outlet pipe
Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Feb 2024 Weeds in local businesses garden where vehicles are parked
Graffiti, 23 Feb 2024 Graffiti on local businesses buildings to remove
Damaged Road, 23 Feb 2024 Potholes on road to level fill & seal
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Potholes on driveway entrance next to berm to level fill & seal
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Missing berm with damaged storm water outlet pipe to replace
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Water meter surrounded by pothole to level fill & seal which runs from the water meter to the building entrance
- Graffiti, 1 Oct 2023
Roading/Streets, 21 Feb 2018
Parked over business driveway
Elsewhere on Elgin Street
- 2 Elgin Street, 20 reports
- 6 Elgin Street, 18 reports
- 33 Elgin Street, 18 reports
- 29 Elgin Street, 12 reports
- 5 Elgin Street, 11 reports
- 27a Elgin Street, 7 reports
- 19 Elgin Street, 7 reports
- 23 Elgin Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Elgin Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Elgin Street, 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
11 council reports on record since February 2018, most often pavement - damaged (5), graffiti (2), roading/streets (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Elgin Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Sydenham Park, 216 m to its edge, 5 ha.