53 Southey Street
2 council reports since August 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 26 Southey Street, 10 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 52 Longfellow Street (74m)
- MED Substation and Setting, 19E Millar Street (210m)
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
- Southey Reserve, 115 m to the edge
- Mabel Howard Reserve, 345 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Colombo Reserve, 432 m to the edge
- Jacksons Creek, 488 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
- Colombo Dental, 289 m away · Dentists
- Essie Summers Retirement Village, 294 m away · Business
- Triton Hearing, 301 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Christchurch South Health Centre, 320 m away · Doctors & clinics
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, 267 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 336 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 362 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 380 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 435 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.
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
- Flooding, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 18 Feb 2025 This part of the road floods with just the smallest amount of rain. About the third time it’s called this in and nothing has happened. Pleas
Damaged Road, 12 Aug 2024 This area of road is uneven and a pond forms anytime a small amount of rain forms (bottom left). In the cooler months, it won’t evaporate so
Elsewhere on Southey Street
- 26 Southey Street, 10 reports
- 52 Southey Street, 8 reports
- 41 Southey Street, 6 reports
- 30 Southey Street, 5 reports
- 24 Southey Street, 5 reports
- 21 Southey Street, 4 reports
- 17 Southey Street, 4 reports
- 53E Southey Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Southey Street in 2 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.
Southey 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
2 council reports on record since August 2024, most often flooding (1), damaged road (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Southey Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, MED Substation and Setting.
Southey Reserve, 115 m to its edge.

