72 Orbell Street
6 council reports since May 2023, 4 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 (96m)
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
- Braddon Reserve, 375 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 385 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Buchan Playground, 428 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Antigua Reserve, 452 m to the edge
- Carlyle Reserve, 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
- Flamingo Scooters, 37 m away · Company
- Eats on Orbell, 42 m away · Cafés
- Weft's Factory Shop, 45 m away · Clothing
- Anybody Can Art - Art Gallery & Giftshop, 45 m away · Galleries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Antigua St near Fairfield Ave, 339 m away · route 120
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 354 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, 344 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 361 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 477 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 477 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 21 May 2026 Global Auto detailing always park on the footpath. Just witnessed a person in a wheelchair having to use the road as they couldn't get throu
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 15 Jan 2026 When it rains most of Orbell Street has significant surface flooding. 72 Orbell has a sump at the front but this cannot work due to signific
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1 Nov 2025 graffiti on building
- Pavement - Damaged, 4 Mar 2025
Meter box lid in the footpath by 67 Orbell Street is broken and needs replacing.
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Nov 2024- Pavement - Damaged, 12 May 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
- 64 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 May 2023, most often pavement - damaged (2), street gutters / storm water (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Orbell Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Braddon Reserve, 375 m to its edge.