39 Waltham Road
11 council reports since September 2024, 9 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
- Waltham Park, 52 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Cameron Reserve, 337 m to the edge · playground, 21 pieces
- Mabel Howard Reserve, 352 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 432 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
- Mountain Bike Adventure Company, 125 m away · Attractions
- Waltham Summer Pool, 186 m away · Sports centres
- Waltham Medical Centre, 205 m away · Doctors & clinics
- PhysioMed Waltham, 211 m away · Physio
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, 23 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 46 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 228 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, 464 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Waltham Park plaque, 225 m away ·
(WWI memorial names panel – multiple names listed)
· 2000 - Waltham Park plaque, 228 m away ·
(WWI memorial names panel – multiple surnames visible; full list unreadable)
· 2000
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 9 on record
What’s on record
- Noise - General, 21 Apr 2026
The recently installed generator on Rogers Street is making an extremely loud humming noise that’s inconsiderate to the units around at all
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 7 Sept 2025 Graffiti on bus stop
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 2 Aug 2025 Graffiti on bus stop
Pavement - General, 28 Jul 2025 The contractors downer who completed recent water upgrades appear to have left this part of the footpath in an unsealed state.
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 11 Jul 2025 Outside 39 Waltham road
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 18 Jun 2025 Graf on bus stop
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 9 Mar 2025 Multiple places on bus stop
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 6 Mar 2025 Tagging on bus stop
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 20 Dec 2024 Bus stop outside 39 Waltham road has been tagged
- Abandoned Vehicle, 19 Dec 2024
The NTK879 Parked outside it’s still adandoded and has had its sticker ripped off front window
Graffiti somewhere else, 17 Sept 2024 Graffiti at bus stop here
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
11 council reports on record since September 2024, most often graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet (6), pavement - general (1), noise - general (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Waltham Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Waltham Park, 52 m to its edge, 3 ha.








