8A Orbell Street
2 council reports since November 2025, 2 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 (214m)
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
- Sydenham Park, 179 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
- Antigua Reserve, 323 m to the edge
- Buchan Playground, 427 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Braddon Reserve, 486 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
- Trents Wholesale, 50 m away · Wholesale
- Mitre 10 Mega, 60 m away · Hardware
- Computer Concepts Limited, 87 m away · IT & software
- Work and Income, Durham Street, 88 m away · Government
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Sydenham Shops, 360 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Antigua St near Fairfield Ave, 385 m away · route 120
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 341 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 363 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 476 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Sydenham Park plaque, 239 m away
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 27 Nov 2025 Black paint tag on concrete ledge by the footpath at 8a Orbell Street.
Dumped Rubbish, 27 Nov 2025 Dumped overcoat on the verge outside 8a Orbell Street needs removal.
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
- 72 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
2 council reports on record since November 2025, most often graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Orbell Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Dwellings and Setting, Blackheath Place.
Sydenham Park, 179 m to its edge, 5 ha.