28 Kirk Road
3 council reports since January 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 39 Kirk Road, 62 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
- Railway Reserve, 205 m to the edge
- Templeton Domain, 217 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 32 pieces
- Kirk Reserve, 289 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Runnymede Reserve, 347 m to the edge
- Colchester Reserve, 393 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Templeton, 301 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- RSA Paparua Templeton, 109 m away · Clubs
- Templeton Returned And Services Association, 110 m away · Clubs
- Templeton Medical Centre, 123 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Templeton Takeaways, 154 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Templeton, 226 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- These Gates Were Presented by S. Bailey Esq. 1903, 232 m away ·
THESE GATES WERE PRESENTED BY S. BAILEY ESQ. 1903
· 2008 - In Loving Memory of / Mavis and Chum Stewart, 244 m away ·
In Loving Memory Of / Mavis and Chum Stewart / Always In Our Hearts
· 2013
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 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 30 Mar 2026 Damaged footpath outside 24 Kirk road
Roads - General, 7 May 2024 Big oil spill from I believe a bus as it is also a bit further down the road at the bus stop as well. Smells really bad.
Flooding, 3 Jan 2020
been like this for a few weeks
Elsewhere on Kirk Road
- 39 Kirk Road, 62 reports
- 62 Kirk Road, 20 reports
- 76 Kirk Road, 17 reports
- 64 Kirk Road, 13 reports
- 31 Kirk Road, 13 reports
- 71 Kirk Road, 12 reports
- 57 Kirk Road, 10 reports
- 91 Kirk Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Kirk Road in 45 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 9 seriously hurt.
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.
Kirk Road, 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
3 council reports on record since January 2020, most often roads - general (1), pavement - damaged (1), flooding (1).
Templeton, Christchurch, on Kirk Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Railway Reserve, 205 m to its edge.

