188 Waltham Road
9 council reports since August 2023, 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, 194 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 233 m to the edge
- Hastings Reserve, 385 m to the edge · playground, 2 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, 49 m away · Cafés
- Heart & Soul Kitchen, 52 m away · Cafés
- Frank Leathem Panelbeating, 74 m away · Car repair
- The Coffee Workshop Waltham, 76 m away · Cafés
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, 17 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 207 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 244 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 265 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 293 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Apr 2026 graffiti water back flow box
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on street light pole
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on container
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 27 Nov 2025 graffiti on black backflow box
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Nov 2025 graffiti on signage structure
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 3 Nov 2024 Black paint tags on 2 sides of lamp pole near 180 Waltham Road.
Graffiti somewhere else, 30 Jul 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 30 Jul 2024 No ladder required
- Graffiti, 19 Aug 2023
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 August 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Waltham Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 194 m to its edge.







