85 Durham Street South
17 council reports since April 2022, 17 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 (71m)
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, 344 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 378 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 427 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Braddon Reserve, 465 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, 70 m away · Hardware
- Dive HQ Christchurch, 77 m away · Outdoor gear
- Flamingo Scooters, 82 m away · Company
- Gavin Cox, 94 m away · Furniture
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 256 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Byron St, 277 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, 255 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 427 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 427 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 450 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 498 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 17 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 15 May 2026 digital advertising screen , set too bright blinding driver as they come down Durham st south, potentially quite dangerous and could lead to
Damaged Street Sign, 7 Apr 2026 stop sign fallen down on corner of Durham Street South and Battersea St
Pavement - Damaged, 13 Mar 2025 This conifer is pushing up the footpath, it has created a few bumps and is a bad trip hazard. We have just moved in to this building a month
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 9 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Nov 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Nov 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 13 Aug 2024 GNOME white paint tag on concrete pole EV689 by 85 Durham Street South
Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Feb 2024 Overgrown street gardens to trim
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Feb 2024 Rubbish removal from site & on path of old derelict business building
Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Feb 2024 Weed removal from street garden & rubbish removal from path & site
Graffiti, 23 Feb 2024 Graffiti on derelict buildings
Overgrown Vegetation, 23 Feb 2024 Weed removal from path
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Feb 2024 Missing berm to replace
Hazard, vehicle, 23 Feb 2024 Road cone yo remove from car park with wedds & rubbish from car park garden broken sign on boundary fence
Roading/Streets, 4 Apr 2022 Battersea Street needs a new sign at its corner with Durham Street South.
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
- 68 Durham Street South, 13 reports
- 30 Durham Street South, 12 reports
- 39 Durham Street South, 11 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
17 council reports on record since April 2022, most often graffiti somewhere else (5), overgrown vegetation (3), pavement - damaged (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, 344 m to its edge.











