27 Forbes Street
7 council reports since December 2019, 6 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 (90m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 6 Shelley Street (113m)
- Dwelling and Setting, 12 Drummond Street (151m)
- Former MED Substation and Setting, 259 Milton Street (222m)
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, 65 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 40 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 366 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Southey Reserve, 440 m to the edge
- Jacksons Creek, 500 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, 133 m away · Supermarkets
- Tyres 2 Go, 143 m away · Car repair
- Taste of Persia, 146 m away · Fast food
- Brothers Mediterranean Restaurant, 160 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Southampton St, 185 m away · route 1
- Milton St near Drummond St, 195 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 176 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 189 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 198 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 220 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 315 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Apr 2025 By creek at exit from Sydenham Park near Woolworths.
Roading/Streets, 27 Jun 2022 Hello, this Ford Transit van is still sitting on Forbes St with expired rego (28.4.22). Two weeks ago I reported this but no action has been
Roading/Streets, 15 Jun 2022 I am reporting a 2005 Ford Transit with expired warrant of fitness (28.4.2022) parked outside 27 Forbes St. Connected to this, at the Bradfo
Roading/Streets, 10 Nov 2021 To all intents and purposes, there are household items being stored on the road reserve outside this house. This is both an eyesore and haza
- Pavement - Damaged, 18 Sept 2020
Owner of premises had cut pavement and installed sewer line from property into the lateral on the street. Sewer line being run from rear of
Parks, 20 Jul 2020 illegal dumping
Roading/Streets, 8 Dec 2019
Boat and trailer parked on council berm. Has been parked there for months
Elsewhere on Forbes Street
- 29 Forbes Street, 16 reports
- 19 Forbes Street, 11 reports
- 13 Forbes Street, 11 reports
- 9 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
7 council reports on record since December 2019, most often roading/streets (4), pavement - damaged (1), parks (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Forbes Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Bradford Park, 65 m to its edge, 3 ha.