17 Buchan Street
2 council reports since July 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 54 Buchan Street, 36 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
- Buchan Playground, 140 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 163 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Cadogan Reserve, 358 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Hastings Reserve, 413 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Jacksons Creek, 445 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
- Cafe Cito, 49 m away · Cafés
- Scotty Browns, 58 m away · Bike shops
- Back Alley Bikes, 67 m away · Bike shops
- Indian Pearl Restaurant, 83 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 111 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Sydenham Shops, 112 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, 106 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 399 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- This Fountain Was Moved and Resited by the City Council, 172 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS MOVED AND RESITED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF TH
· 2009 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 188 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 189 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008
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
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 7 Apr 2025 KAEPE black paint tag on metal lamp pole by 11/1 Buchan Street
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Jul 2024
Elsewhere on Buchan Street
- 54 Buchan Street, 36 reports
- 41 Buchan Street, 31 reports
- 56 Buchan Street, 19 reports
- 102 Buchan Street, 16 reports
- 91 Buchan Street, 15 reports
- 81 Buchan Street, 14 reports
- 79 Buchan Street, 14 reports
- 71 Buchan Street, 14 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Buchan Street in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.
Buchan 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
2 council reports on record since July 2024, most often general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Buchan Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain and Setting.
Buchan Playground, 140 m to its edge.

