173 Waltham Road
9 council reports since December 2021, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 255 Waltham Road, 100 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
- Thackeray Reserve, 208 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 213 m to the edge
- Hastings Reserve, 347 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Cameron Reserve, 477 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Rise'n Grind Cafe, 19 m away · Cafés
- The Coffee Workshop Waltham, 50 m away · Cafés
- Frank Leathem Panelbeating, 73 m away · Car repair
- Heart & Soul Kitchen, 80 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Waltham Rd near Coleridge St, 61 m away · route 8, route 27
- Brougham St near Waltham Rd, 150 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 14 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 185 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 266 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 297 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 300 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 8 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Street Sign, 2 May 2026 Pole bent
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on sign board
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 3 Nov 2024 Silver and green paint tags on an elevated vacant sign by 173 Waltham Road.
Graffiti somewhere else, 19 Sept 2024
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Mar 2024 Weed removal from footpath surrounding Orion power pole .
Graffiti, 16 Mar 2024 Graffiti on signage to remove
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Mar 2024 Damaged berm over storm water outlet pipes to replace
- Graffiti, 1 Sept 2023
Roading/Streets, 14 Dec 2021 Sunken footpath
Elsewhere on Waltham Road
- 255 Waltham Road, 100 reports
- 373 Waltham Road, 41 reports
- 60 Waltham Road, 39 reports
- 64 Waltham Road, 38 reports
- 67 Waltham Road, 36 reports
- 37 Waltham Road, 36 reports
- 197 Waltham Road, 36 reports
- 111 Waltham Road, 36 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Waltham Road in 67 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 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.
Waltham Road, 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
9 council reports on record since December 2021, most often pavement - damaged (2), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (2), graffiti (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Waltham Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 208 m to its edge.