59 Kirk Road
5 council reports since January 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 39 Kirk Road, 62 reports on file.
On the register here
- St Saviour's Church and Setting, 50 Kirk Road (239m)
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
- Kirk Reserve, 33 m to the edge · 2 ha
- Templeton Domain, 120 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 32 pieces
- Colchester Reserve, 304 m to the edge
- Azalea Reserve, 417 m to the edge
- Globe Bay Reserve, 469 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 civic shelf nearby
- Templeton, 183 m away · Recreation centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Templeton Community Centre, 133 m away · Venues & events
- RSA Paparua Templeton, 370 m away · Clubs
- Templeton Returned And Services Association, 370 m away · Clubs
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 named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- This Wall / Erected by / Centennial Committee, 181 m away ·
THIS WALL / ERECTED BY / CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE / TO COMMEMORATE / TEMPLETON / DISTRICT & SC
- These Gates Were Presented by S. Bailey Esq. 1903, 244 m away ·
THESE GATES WERE PRESENTED BY S. BAILEY ESQ. 1903
· 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 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 3 Apr 2026 Car is parked right on the corner of the street, where cars normally give way.
Rubbish and Bins - General, 2 Apr 2026 yellow bin not emptied, have loosened all the contents up
Rubbish and Bins - General, 12 Mar 2026 my green bin was only half empty, I've loosened the material
Flooding, 31 Dec 2024 Blocked stormwater sumps need clearing please. Thanks, Mark Peters, Councillor for Hornby
- Water Leak, 26 Jan 2023
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
5 council reports on record since January 2023, most often rubbish and bins - general (2), water leak (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Templeton, Christchurch, on Kirk Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, St Saviour's Church and Setting.
Kirk Reserve, 33 m to its edge, 2 ha.