Cashmere ward
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor, centred on Cashmere, Somerfield, Saint Martins, Hillsborough and 4 more. Its community board is Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote.
The boundary
The council’s own electoral boundary in ink; the suburb outlines inside it. A suburb belongs where its centre falls, an address near an edge can sit in the neighbouring ward.
The suburbs inside it
A suburb counts where its centre falls, the ward edges the council drew don’t always follow suburb lines. Population shows for the 6 the census names.
The reports on its ground
30,904 council reports filed under the suburbs it centres on, most often Water & drains and Roads & footpaths, 24,345 with a photograph. The newest:
The crash record
708 crashes that hurt somebody on record across the suburbs it centres on, 10 people killed, 168 seriously hurt. The corner that keeps appearing: Dyers Pass Road at Summit Road, 33 injury crashes, 4 fatal. A crash counts under the suburb its point landed in.
How long the council takes here
The median council work order in Cashmere ward took 5 days to resolve, th fastest of 16 wards, on the jobs the council has finished. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 1,061 tickets are open in the ward now, the oldest filed 8 Jan 2019.
MyCouncilTicket, the council’s own work-order stream, 44,930 finished jobs counted inside this ward’s boundary. A median counts only closed work; what is still open is named as open. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
Who decides here
Tim Scandrett holds the seat, Independent, declared 16 October 2025. The ward enrolled 20,182 electors; 9,228 papers came back, 45.7% of them. The council’s elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is the local layer under it. The mechanics: how community boards work · how councils work · how local elections run · what rates buy.
Questions, answered briefly
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor at each triennial election. This page counts the public record inside its boundary: 24,647 council reports across 8 suburbs.
Cashmere, Somerfield, Saint Martins, Hillsborough, Beckenham, and 3 more, a suburb counts where its centre falls; ward edges don’t always follow suburb lines.
Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote, the board the ward’s councillor also sits on.
Tim Scandrett (Independent), declared 16 October 2025. The council’s own elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The record behind this
The boundary comes from the council’s electoral layer, the same map the elections run on. The suburb list is a centre-point join, so a suburb that straddles a boundary counts under the ward its centre sits in; the suburb pages say the same from the other side. Report counts are the suburb records' own.
Every ward and board: /wards. This page as markdown: /wards/cashmere.md.