5 Elgin Street
11 council reports since September 2022, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Elgin Street, 20 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (157m)
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
- Sydenham Park, 209 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Buchan Playground, 274 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Antigua Reserve, 476 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
- 5th Street, 9 m away · Restaurants
- The Tucker Shop, 24 m away · Business
- Hello Sunday, 34 m away · Restaurants
- Coffee Culture Roastery on Durham, 51 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 224 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 232 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, 215 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 489 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
- Sydenham Park plaque, 250 m away
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
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Aug 2024 Navy blue EKOE paint tag on Chorus wooden pole 219035 on Durham Street South corner of Elgin Street.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Aug 2024 Silver paint tag on EV699 concrete pole by 5 Elgin Street.
Water Leak, 20 Jul 2024 A bit hard to see in these photos sorry because they were taken at night. There’s a constant leak here.
Hazard, vehicle, 23 Feb 2024 Old signage to remove & border to car park to replace
Damaged Road, 23 Feb 2024 Pothole on road to level fill & seal
Damaged Road, 23 Feb 2024 Potholes on road to level fill & seal
Graffiti, 23 Feb 2024 Graffiti on local businesses
- Graffiti, 1 Oct 2023
- Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Sept 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Aug 2023
Vandalism - General, 13 Sept 2022 Graffiti on local business buildings
Elsewhere on Elgin Street
- 2 Elgin Street, 20 reports
- 6 Elgin Street, 18 reports
- 33 Elgin Street, 18 reports
- 29 Elgin Street, 12 reports
- 13 Elgin Street, 11 reports
- 27a Elgin Street, 7 reports
- 19 Elgin Street, 7 reports
- 23 Elgin Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Elgin Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Elgin 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
11 council reports on record since September 2022, most often graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2), graffiti (2), damaged road (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Elgin Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Sydenham Park, 209 m to its edge, 5 ha.