17 Van Dieman Close
6 council reports since June 2017, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Van Dieman Close.
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
- Jones Reserve, you are in it · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 60 pieces
- Roydon Drainage Reserve, 105 m to the edge
- Runnymede Reserve, 216 m to the edge
- Railway Reserve, 290 m to the edge
- Globe Bay Reserve, 293 m to the edge · 3 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Templeton ran about $620 a week, $70 above 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
Road Signage, 4 Jun 2025 Sign left
Playground Equipment, 27 Jan 2025 Sharp edge on flying fox handle
Rubbish and Bins - General, 25 Jun 2024 Someone has tried to put something big in the bin and it is full
Overgrown Vegetation, 25 Mar 2024 Vegetation crosses half of path.
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 5 Aug 2023
Parks, 29 Jun 2017
Loose bollard at Van Diem entrance
Elsewhere on Van Dieman Close
- 20 Van Dieman Close, 4 reports
- 11 Van Dieman Close, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Van Dieman Close, the whole record → · Everything about Templeton → · 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 June 2017, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), road signage (1), playground equipment (1).
Templeton, Christchurch, on Van Dieman Close.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Jones Reserve, the address is inside it, 2 ha.



