19 Forbes Street
11 council reports since September 2021, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 29 Forbes Street, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 5 Shelley Street (126m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 6 Shelley Street (151m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (203m)
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
- Bradford Park, 75 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 394 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Southey Reserve, 452 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
- Woolworths, 143 m away · Supermarkets
- Tyres 2 Go, 177 m away · Car repair
- Taste of Persia, 192 m away · Fast food
- Woolworths Colombo Street, 194 m away · Supermarkets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Southampton St, 229 m away · route 1
- Milton St near Antrim St, 229 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 163 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 214 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 222 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 254 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 277 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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 9 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 28 May 2026 significant branch broken and hanging from tree in Bradford Park
Trees - General, 6 Dec 2025 tree is really hanging close to ground and big branches falling off, close to junior cricket and starting to look unsafe
Fallen Tree, 21 Feb 2025 Massive branch just came down off this 80 year old tree - and the tree it came from is leaning a fair bit so looks a wee bit dangerous
Hazard, vehicle, 1 Feb 2025 Various vehicles parked in park. Dumped for a long time, this is an ongoing issue to which nothing seems to be done to resolve. Inhibits ac
- Park - General Request, 1 Nov 2022
- Abandoned Vehicle, 19 Sept 2022
Parks, 4 Mar 2022 Hoarder taking over Bradford park
Parks, 20 Feb 2022 Van, boat and trailer parked on council reserve, behind 27 Forbes St
Parks, 6 Jan 2022 Some lazy sod has dumped their grass clippings in Bradford Park (close to Devon St entrance). Unbelievably, they've made a nice tidy pile as
Parks, 20 Nov 2021 Surely this load of credo is on council land and the private owner needs to get it off? Is council subsidising private storage of boats, car
Parks, 15 Sept 2021 Hoarder putting his stuff in public park
Elsewhere on Forbes Street
- 29 Forbes Street, 16 reports
- 13 Forbes Street, 11 reports
- 9 Forbes Street, 7 reports
- 27 Forbes Street, 7 reports
- 30 Forbes Street, 6 reports
- 9B Forbes Street, 3 reports
- 4 Forbes Street, 3 reports
- 21 Forbes Street, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Forbes 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
11 council reports on record since September 2021, most often parks (5), trees - general (2), park - general request (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Forbes Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 75 m to its edge, 3 ha.