8 Defoe Place
3 council reports since April 2018, 1 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, 94 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Tommy Taylor Reserve, 234 m to the edge
- Hastings Reserve, 487 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 Crafted Coffee Company - Shakespeare Road, 117 m away · Cafés
- Heart & Soul Kitchen, 152 m away · Cafés
- Gold Band 21 Social Club, 157 m away · Clubs
- The Coffee Workshop Waltham, 162 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, 111 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 148 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 208 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Waltham, 226 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 1 on record
What’s on record
- Abandoned Vehicle, 26 Feb 2023
- Trees - General, 16 Aug 2022
The trees have dropped so much stuff there is a rotting sludge in the kerb of the road.
Rubbish/Recycling, 14 Apr 2018
Mattress dumped on roadside outside #7
Elsewhere on Defoe Place
- 20 Defoe Place, 8 reports
- 18E Defoe Place, 5 reports
- 2A Defoe Place, 4 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
3 council reports on record since April 2018, most often trees - general (1), rubbish/recycling (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
Waltham, Christchurch, on Defoe Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thackeray Reserve, 94 m to its edge.