52 Orbell Street
6 council reports since October 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 45 Orbell Street, 29 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (121m)
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, 291 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Antigua Reserve, 385 m to the edge
- Braddon Reserve, 415 m to the edge
- Buchan Playground, 418 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Eats on Orbell, 56 m away · Cafés
- Weft knitwear, 74 m away · Clothing
- Weft's Factory Shop, 78 m away · Clothing
- Trents Wholesale, 85 m away · Wholesale
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Antigua St near Fairfield Ave, 344 m away · route 120
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 365 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, 342 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 363 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.
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
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 4
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 28 Aug 2026 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Jun 2026 graffiti on grey wall 52
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 Jan 2026 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 10 Nov 2025 Graffiti on fence wall
Dumped Rubbish, 28 Oct 2025 dumped pallets/rubbish outside our business.
- General Request, 2 Oct 2023
Elsewhere on Orbell Street
- 45 Orbell Street, 29 reports
- 62 Orbell Street, 25 reports
- 8 Orbell Street, 19 reports
- 98 Orbell Street, 9 reports
- 48 Orbell Street, 7 reports
- 32 Orbell Street, 7 reports
- 110 Orbell Street, 7 reports
- 72 Orbell Street, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Orbell Street in 13 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.
Orbell 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 October 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4), general request (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Orbell Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Sydenham Park, 291 m to its edge, 5 ha.