9 Penbury Street
5 council reports since June 2020, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Penbury Street, 6 reports on file.
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, 163 m to the edge · playground, 5 pieces
- Carlyle Reserve, 225 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve, 401 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve, 471 m to the edge
- Sydenham Park, 492 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Cake Eating Company, 18 m away · Bakeries
- Atkins Panelbeaters Limited, 38 m away · Car repair
- The Beer Library, 44 m away · Bottle stores
- Decant, 47 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Colombo St near Byron St, 108 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Colombo St near Lawson St, 157 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, 105 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 378 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 379 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 393 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sydenham, 403 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 173 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 174 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008 - Presented by Jubilee Committee 75th Anniversary, 175 m away ·
PRESENTED BY JUBILEE COMMITTEE 75TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS NOVEMBER 1948 PRESIDENT: T. C
· 2008
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
- Graffiti, 3
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Litter, 2 Jul 2025 Continuous rubbish left on street from bins at Colombo lodge. Photo from backside with the bins that is on Penbury street
Overgrown Vegetation, 18 Nov 2024 Sycamore tree over growing entire foot path near the corner of Penbury and Buchan Streets
Graffiti, 2 May 2022
Graffiti, 30 Apr 2021Graffiti, 4 Jun 2020
Penbury Street beside mixed martial arts building
Elsewhere on Penbury Street
- 2 Penbury Street, 6 reports
- 7 Penbury Street, 2 reports
- 1 Penbury Street, 1 report
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.
Penbury 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 2020, most often graffiti (3), overgrown vegetation (1), litter (1).
Sydenham, Christchurch, on Penbury Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Buchan Playground, 163 m to its edge.