52 Battersea Street
8 council reports since July 2018, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 45 Battersea Street, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (230m)
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, 178 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 266 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 436 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Churchills Tavern, 17 m away · Bars & pubs
- Andrew & Juenith McIntosh Lawyers, 21 m away · Lawyers
- Flourish Op Shop, 41 m away · Op shops
- Doner - Sydenham, 45 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 83 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Byron St, 102 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, 51 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 419 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 419 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 193 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 194 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 195 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1 Jul 2025 GOMS blue paint tag on low concrete ledge by 52 Battersea Street facing the footpath.
Water Leak, 28 Feb 2025 Leak bubbling up from asphalt near toby
- Graffiti, 11 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 11 Aug 2022Rubbish/Recycling, 23 Jan 2020
rubbish bin that was reported stolen in Nov has been placed back on the street and is full of rubbish.
Graffiti, 30 Oct 2018
The whole of 45 Battersea St is tagged, plus other buildings in the vicinity
Graffiti, 3 Aug 2018
Westpac building Battersea st
Graffiti, 16 Jul 2018
Elsewhere on Battersea Street
- 45 Battersea Street, 16 reports
- 55 Battersea Street, 15 reports
- 36 Battersea Street, 7 reports
- 46 Battersea Street, 6 reports
- 35 Battersea Street, 6 reports
- 1 Battersea Street, 6 reports
- 51 Battersea Street, 5 reports
- 48 Battersea Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Battersea Street in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Battersea 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
8 council reports on record since July 2018, most often graffiti (5), water leak (1), rubbish/recycling (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Battersea Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Buchan Playground, 178 m to its edge.


