17 Lawson Street
14 council reports since June 2016, 12 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 9 Lawson Street, 29 reports on file.
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, 84 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 301 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 412 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Science Alive Reserve, 465 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
- The Mechanics, 2 m away · Car repair
- Further Faster, 34 m away · Outdoor gear
- Merchants Liquor Colombo Street, 57 m away · Bottle stores
- Sydenham Bakery, 80 m away · Bakeries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 106 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 149 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, 94 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 458 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 459 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 468 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 482 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 93 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 94 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 95 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
Photographed here 12 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Feb 2026 graffiti on water back flow
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Nov 2025 West facing wall
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 20 Oct 2025 Graffiti on backflow
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 20 Oct 2025 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 19 Feb 2025 LOSERS sea green paint tag on Backflow Prevention Assembly asset by 17 Lawson Street.
Graffiti somewhere else, 10 Sept 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 10 Sept 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 10 Sept 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 19 Aug 2024
Graffiti, 13 Feb 2024- Graffiti, 2 Apr 2023
- Roading/Streets, 16 Jun 2022
Toby urgently needs a new lid in the footpath opposite 14 Lawson Street. OHS issue for pedestrians safety at present.
Graffiti, 18 Oct 2021 Litter and graffiti in same area. Mess attracts mess
Graffiti, 8 Jun 2016
Elsewhere on Lawson Street
- 9 Lawson Street, 29 reports
- 15 Lawson Street, 19 reports
- 12 Lawson Street, 19 reports
- 28 Lawson Street, 5 reports
- 29 Lawson Street, 4 reports
- 18 Lawson Street, 4 reports
- 19–29 Lawson Street, 3 reports
- 16 Lawson Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Lawson Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Lawson 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
14 council reports on record since June 2016, most often graffiti somewhere else (4), graffiti (4), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Lawson Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Buchan Playground, 84 m to its edge.










