40 Wordsworth Street
10 council reports since January 2023, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (123m)
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, 210 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 316 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Carlyle Reserve, 415 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
- Yogiji's Food Mart, 34 m away · Supermarkets
- Just Desserts Cafe, 53 m away · Cafés
- Brymac Tiles, 61 m away · Hardware
- Southside Social, 64 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 154 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 162 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, 153 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; Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 241 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 242 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 242 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 8 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 28 Jul 2026 Handicapped allocated carpark is being occupied all the time in this location, despite of multiple reminders to owners. no response is given
Water Leak, 16 Jan 2026 Water leak, being going for a few days now
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Apr 2025 View from Wordsworth street opposite Decra Art Ltd building
Hazard, vehicle, 22 Jan 2025 Parked on footpath, not designed for this
Water Leak, 16 Jan 2025 This gutters appears to be constantly wet, even when there has been no rain for some time. Suspect water leak below kerb.
Graffiti somewhere else, 18 Nov 2024 Near 32 mailbox
Water Leak, 17 Jul 2024 Significant water leak that has been there for a few days. Appears to becoming out between footpath asphalt and Indian supermarket boundary
Water Leak, 17 Jul 2024 Water leak and footpath is lifting with the water pushing underneath
- Graffiti, 2 Mar 2023
- Graffiti, 26 Jan 2023
Elsewhere on Wordsworth Street
- 93 Wordsworth Street, 48 reports
- 161 Wordsworth Street, 47 reports
- 60 Wordsworth Street, 34 reports
- 74 Wordsworth Street, 27 reports
- 100 Wordsworth Street, 23 reports
- 97 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports
- 55 Wordsworth Street, 21 reports
- 95 Wordsworth Street, 19 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wordsworth Street in 70 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 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.
Wordsworth 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
10 council reports on record since January 2023, most often water leak (4), hazard, vehicle (2), graffiti (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Wordsworth Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Buchan Playground, 210 m to its edge.