1 Esher Place
2 council reports since December 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Esher Place.
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
- Acorn Reserve, 132 m to the edge
- Waltham Park, 312 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Risingholme Park, 380 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha · playground, 10 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Opawa Tennis, 357 m away · Sports centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 187 m away · the Orbiter (anticlockwise)
- St Martins Rd near Ensors Rd, 196 m away · the Orbiter (clockwise)
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 10 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 23 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 41 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 173 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 247 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Waltham ran about $463 a week, $87 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Fallen Tree, 2
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Fallen Tree, 27 Dec 2025 Broken tree branch in Heathcote River
Fallen Tree, 26 Dec 2025 Branch has snapped and fallen into the river. Needs to be pulled out? Perhaps good idea to check other branches as well???
Elsewhere on Esher Place
- 2 Esher Place, 2 reports
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.
Esher Place, the whole record → · Everything about Waltham → · 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 December 2025, most often fallen tree (2).
Waltham, Christchurch, on Esher Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Acorn Reserve, 132 m to its edge.

