56 Durham St S
1 council report since April 2025, 1 carrying a photograph.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (41m)
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, 300 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 373 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Carlyle Reserve, 402 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
- Dominion Flooring, 12 m away · Hardware
- Just Desserts Cafe, 48 m away · Cafés
- Brymac Tiles, 73 m away · Hardware
- Decra Art, 91 m away · Business
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 223 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Wordsworth St, 255 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, 230 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 475 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 481 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 481 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
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Accessibility, 12 Apr 2025 DIsused Chorus Pole right on kerbside and blocking accessway.
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.
Durham St S, 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
1 council report on record since April 2025, most often accessibility (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Durham St S.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Buchan Playground, 300 m to its edge.