72 Durham Street South
8 council reports since April 2022, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 100 Durham Street South, 35 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place, 71 Durham Street South (103m)
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, 337 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 343 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 454 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Braddon Reserve, 484 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
- Dive HQ Christchurch, 56 m away · Outdoor gear
- Gavin Cox, 63 m away · Furniture
- Chambers Art Gallery & Studio Spaces, 70 m away · Galleries
- Decra Art, 78 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, 243 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Byron St, 248 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, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 400 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 400 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 463 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 472 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 7 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 7 Apr 2026 very bad water leak...water pouring out from under roadside tarseal,
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 16 Nov 2024 Broken plastic conduit cover on wooden pole EU600 plus gizmos higher up look odd. On Battersea Street by the corner of 72 Durham Street Sout
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Nov 2024 Graffiti on chorus pole
Graffiti somewhere else, 21 Aug 2024 Ladder required
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Aug 2024 Broken white plastic conduit cover on EU600 wooden pole by 72 Durham Street South
Graffiti, 20 Dec 2023 2 issues for wooden pole EU600 at the corner of Battersea and Durham Street South: 1/ white paint tag on metal conduit cover 2/ broken whit
- Pavement - Damaged, 2 Aug 2023
Graffiti, 4 Apr 2022 Broken white plastic conduit cover on wooden pole by 72 Durham Street South plus a white paint tag on the metal conduit cover.
Elsewhere on Durham Street South
- 100 Durham Street South, 35 reports
- 50 Durham Street South, 26 reports
- 175 Durham Street South, 23 reports
- 14 Durham Street South, 19 reports
- 52 Durham Street South, 18 reports
- 85 Durham Street South, 17 reports
- 68 Durham Street South, 13 reports
- 30 Durham Street South, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Durham Street South in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Durham Street South, 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 April 2022, most often graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2), graffiti (2).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Durham Street South.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Buchan Playground, 337 m to its edge.






