13 Forbes Street
11 council reports since January 2024, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 29 Forbes Street, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street (105m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 6 Shelley Street (130m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (223m)
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
- Bradford Park, 46 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Southey Reserve, 410 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 436 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Woolworths, 104 m away · Supermarkets
- Tyres 2 Go, 150 m away · Car repair
- Woolworths Colombo Street, 163 m away · Supermarkets
- Taste of Persia, 176 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Devon St, 195 m away · route 1
- Colombo St near Southampton St, 209 m away · route 1
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 159 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 198 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 255 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 259 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 312 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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 6 on record
What’s on record
- Dumped Rubbish, 7 Sept 2026
lawn mower
- Dumped Rubbish, 11 Jun 2026
in the garden next to the path and opposite the letter box is a double matress
- Dumped Rubbish, 10 Jun 2026
double bed mattress
Trees - General, 11 Dec 2025 Big branch down .
Damaged Street Light, 26 Oct 2025 Someone has put a plastic bucket that is cracked over a street lamp at entrance to driveway. It looks like. The original lamp cover was bro
- Dumped Rubbish, 6 Apr 2025
Flat 2, 13 Forbes Street has a lot of rubbish in his flat, out the back and in his car port. The problem is there are MICE coming from there
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Mar 2025 End of Park near Angus St
- Water Leak, 3 Feb 2025
A water meter is leaking in front of 13 Forbes street Sydenham. Water over the footpath
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Jan 2025 Accumulated trash (from apartment 2) in parking area, front garden (at street entrance), and back yard (of apartment 2). Syringes found in g
Animal - General, 1 Oct 2024 1415 I walking across the park with my granddaughter and small dog on a lead Both these dogs were playing unleashed The smaller dog approach
Trees - General, 23 Jan 2024 There’s a branch looking a bit precarious in Bradford park. Near corner of Forbes and Devon st
Elsewhere on Forbes Street
- 29 Forbes Street, 16 reports
- 19 Forbes Street, 11 reports
- 9 Forbes Street, 7 reports
- 27 Forbes Street, 7 reports
- 30 Forbes Street, 6 reports
- 9B Forbes Street, 3 reports
- 4 Forbes Street, 3 reports
- 21 Forbes Street, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Forbes 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 January 2024, most often dumped rubbish (5), trees - general (2), water leak (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Forbes Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 46 m to its edge, 3 ha.





