7 Defoe Place
3 council reports since December 2023, 3 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, 75 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 197 m to the edge
- Hastings Reserve, 455 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, 134 m away · Cafés
- Big Daddy's Liquor - Brougham Street, 153 m away · Bottle stores
- Heart & Soul Kitchen, 154 m away · Cafés
- The Crafted Coffee Company - Shakespeare Road, 155 m away · Cafés
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, 122 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 126 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 186 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 192 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 193 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 6 Dec 2025 2 abandoned bins - 240L yellow bin & 80L green bin. Sitting on kerb outside 7 Defoe Place for at least 3 weeks now. Belonged to 3/11 Defoe
Dumped Rubbish, 19 Mar 2024 waste - spillage non toxic spilled glass outside 11 Defoe Place
Pavement - Damaged, 9 Dec 2023 Pavement is buckled by roots and it’s uneven to walk on.
Elsewhere on Defoe Place
- 20 Defoe Place, 8 reports
- 18E Defoe Place, 5 reports
- 2A Defoe Place, 4 reports
- 8 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
3 council reports on record since December 2023, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), pavement - damaged (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Waltham, Christchurch, on Defoe Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 75 m to its edge.