8 Hawdon Street
5 council reports since June 2017, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Hawdon Street, 16 reports on file.
On the register here
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, 199 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Sydenham Park, 206 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Cadogan Reserve, 278 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Hastings Reserve, 322 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
- Jacksons Creek, 372 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
- Scotty Browns, 46 m away · Bike shops
- Back Alley Bikes, 110 m away · Bike shops
- Cafe Cito, 136 m away · Cafés
- Science Alive!, 169 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 177 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Brougham St near Albemarle St, 187 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 184 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 308 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.
The remembered names nearby
- This Fountain Was Moved and Resited by the City Council, 218 m away ·
THIS FOUNTAIN WAS MOVED AND RESITED BY THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF TH
· 2009
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, 13 Nov 2025 Graffiti on a bin
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Feb 2025 Black paint tag on door facing the footpath at 8 Hawdon Street.
Water General, 2 Sept 2022 Broken lid of water meter
Rubbish/Recycling, 8 Jan 2021
Dumped car tyres in shrub garden , hidden away, unless looking for them.
Roading/Streets, 28 Jun 2017
Elsewhere on Hawdon Street
- 53 Hawdon Street, 16 reports
- 55 Hawdon Street, 12 reports
- 35 Hawdon Street, 12 reports
- 50 Hawdon Street, 10 reports
- 57 Hawdon Street, 8 reports
- 32 Hawdon Street, 8 reports
- 56 Hawdon Street, 5 reports
- 49 Hawdon Street, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hawdon Street in 6 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.
Hawdon 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
5 council reports on record since June 2017, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), water general (1), rubbish/recycling (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Hawdon Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, King Edward VII Coronation Memorial Lamp and Drinking Fountain and Setting.
Buchan Playground, 199 m to its edge.