23 Buchan Street
7 council reports since December 2024, 7 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, 87 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 212 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Cadogan Reserve, 397 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Hastings Reserve, 423 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Jacksons Creek, 488 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
- Back Alley Bikes, 25 m away · Bike shops
- Cafe Cito, 35 m away · Cafés
- Grizzly Baked Goods, 54 m away · Bakeries
- Scotty Browns, 74 m away · Bike shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 130 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Sydenham Shops, 153 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, 120 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 411 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 138 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 139 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 141 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 15 Sept 2026 Huge pothole in the footpath
Pothole, 28 Aug 2026 Pothole on the footpath around the water toby. We have seen a couple of people trip in it.
Pavement - Damaged, 19 Jan 2026 Trip hazard our driver had tripped a few times
Hazard, vehicle, 2 Jul 2025 Parks he most of the day on a 30min park
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 15 May 2025
Water Leak, 12 May 2025 Toby leaking water on our drive way
Graffiti somewhere else, 31 Dec 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
7 council reports on record since December 2024, most often pothole (2), water leak (1), pavement - damaged (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, 87 m to its edge.