18E Defoe Place
5 council reports since September 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20 Defoe Place, 8 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
- Thackeray Reserve, you are in it · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 174 m to the edge
- Waltham Park, 425 m to the edge · Sports ground · 3 ha · playground, 16 pieces
- Hastings Reserve, 483 m to the edge · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The Coffee Workshop Waltham, 193 m away · Cafés
- Big Daddy's Liquor - Brougham Street, 196 m away · Bottle stores
- The Crafted Coffee Company - Shakespeare Road, 197 m away · Cafés
- Brougham Tavern, 208 m away · Bars & pubs
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 Waltham, 54 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 100 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 174 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 190 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 219 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Dumped Rubbish, 4
- Litter, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 16 Sept 2025
Dumped Rubbish, 24 Jun 2025
Litter, 7 Jan 2025 Small bits of rubbish, some metal and sharp in the reserve. Is better kept that it has been.
- Dumped Rubbish, 11 Apr 2023
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2022 Bike and rubbish back right corner
Elsewhere on Defoe Place
- 20 Defoe Place, 8 reports
- 2A Defoe Place, 4 reports
- 8 Defoe Place, 3 reports
- 7 Defoe Place, 3 reports
- 21 Defoe Place, 3 reports
- 20F Defoe Place, 3 reports
- 18D Defoe Place, 3 reports
- 11 Defoe Place, 3 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.
Defoe 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
5 council reports on record since September 2022, most often dumped rubbish (4), litter (1).
Waltham, Christchurch, on Defoe Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, the address is inside it.