36 Buchan Street
6 council reports since April 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 54 Buchan Street, 36 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
- Buchan Playground, 42 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 264 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Hastings Reserve, 435 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Cadogan Reserve, 436 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 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
- Grizzly Baked Goods, 32 m away · Bakeries
- Back Alley Bikes, 49 m away · Bike shops
- Cyclone Outdoor Power Equipment, 59 m away · Business
- Jonathan Smart Gallery, 72 m away · Galleries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 147 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Sydenham Shops, 167 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, 140 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 422 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, 98 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 99 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 101 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Jan 2026 Rubbish dumped by the footpath on Coleridge Street a tad east of Buchan Street needs removal.
- Street Cleaning, 4 Sept 2025
Large amounts of pea gravel built up on from the resurfacing in 2024. Worst area on the corner of Buchan st and coleridge st (opposite grizz
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 25 Aug 2024 ET dark green paint tag on EU836 concrete pole by 36 Buchan Street corner of Coleridge Street.
Graffiti somewhere else, 20 May 2024
Water Leak, 19 Feb 2024 Leaking
- Dumped Rubbish, 2 Apr 2023
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
6 council reports on record since April 2023, most often dumped rubbish (2), water leak (1), street cleaning (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Buchan Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Buchan Playground, 42 m to its edge.