55 Byron Street
6 council reports since November 2023, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 15 Byron Street, 22 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED Substation and Setting, 99A Gasson Street (81m)
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
- Science Alive Reserve, 162 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve, 214 m to the edge
- Washington Way Reserve, 333 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Carlyle Reserve, 370 m to the edge
- Buchan Playground, 389 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
- Jaycar, 75 m away · Electronics
- Clubpickle, 77 m away · Restaurants
- Control Insulation Limited, 86 m away · Insulation
- Elite & Superfinish Panel & Paint, 89 m away · Car repair
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Moorhouse near Manchester St, 271 m away · route 140
- Moorhouse Ave near Manchester St, 293 m away · route 27, route 84, route 85, route 95, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 318 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 391 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 402 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
- Rail Workers Memorial This Site Is Dedicated to Rail, 167 m away ·
RAIL WORKERS MEMORIAL THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO RAIL WORKERS WHO WERE KILLED OR SERIOUSLY
· 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 31 Dec 2025 Graffiti on building
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 26 Jul 2025 Graffiti on backflow system
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 2 Feb 2025 Red and silver paint tags on Backflow Prevention Assembly asset by 55 Byron Street.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Jul 2024 Purple paint tag on drainpipe facing the footpath at 55 Gasson Street.
Graffiti, 18 Dec 2023- Graffiti, 19 Nov 2023
Elsewhere on Byron Street
- 15 Byron Street, 22 reports
- 57 Byron Street, 15 reports
- 15A Byron Street, 15 reports
- 95 Byron Street, 14 reports
- 19 Byron Street, 11 reports
- 96 Byron Street, 9 reports
- 15C Byron Street, 9 reports
- 54 Byron Street, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Byron Street in 46 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 people killed, 14 seriously hurt.
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.
Byron 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 November 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti (2), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Byron Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED Substation and Setting.
Science Alive Reserve, 162 m to its edge.