147B King Street
12 council reports since May 2018, 12 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 73 King Street, 44 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED Substation and Setting, 19E Millar Street (234m)
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
- Mabel Howard Reserve, 2 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Waltham Park, 435 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Cameron Reserve, 440 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
- Southey Reserve, 462 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Roger Street Fish Supply, 147 m away · Fast food
- Sydenham Souvlaki, 158 m away · Fast food
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 Sydenham, 297 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 324 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 352 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 359 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 424 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 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 12 on record
What’s on record
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 17 Mar 2025 Contractors cleaned out stormwater drain but have left silt in the deep dishes. Can these please be suckered up to prevent flooding?
Trees - General, 15 Jan 2025 Both trees outside Mabel Howard Reserve appear to be dead or dying. No visible cause, concern from neighbour.
Dumped Rubbish, 31 Oct 2024 Illegally dumped household items on council reserve. Mabel Howard Reserve, King Street, Sydenham.
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Oct 2024 Illegally dumped mattress and cardboard box on foot path in front of Mabel Howard Reserve, King Street, Sydenham.
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Oct 2024 Illegally dumped furniture on council reserve a Mabel Howard Reserve, King Street, Sydenham.
Dumped Rubbish, 29 Oct 2024 2 single mattresses & tv cabinet.
Dumped Rubbish, 27 Aug 2024 Illegally dumped item (chair) on council berm in front of Mabel Howard Reserve, King Street, Sydenham.
Dumped Rubbish, 21 Aug 2024 Illegally dumped item on Mabel Howard Reserve on King Street, Sydenham.
Street Cleaning, 24 May 2024 King st has lots of leaves in the gutters :)
Dumped Rubbish, 25 Feb 2024 Illegally dumped rubbish - carpet underlay. Mabel Howard Reserve, Sydenham.
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Jan 2024 Child seat
Rubbish/Recycling, 16 May 2018
Neighbour has cut down trees and branches and left in garden
Elsewhere on King Street
- 73 King Street, 44 reports
- 88 King Street, 36 reports
- 151 King Street, 32 reports
- 109 King Street, 30 reports
- 67 King Street, 29 reports
- 146E King Street, 28 reports
- 66A King Street, 27 reports
- 150 King Street, 20 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names King Street in 4 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.
King 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
12 council reports on record since May 2018, most often dumped rubbish (8), trees - general (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on King Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED Substation and Setting.
Mabel Howard Reserve, 2 m to its edge.










