3 Highcrest Heights
5 council reports since January 2021, 4 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Highcrest Heights.
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
- Highcrest Reserve, 24 m to the edge · playground, 10 pieces
- Sedgewick Reserve, 321 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 42 pieces
- Willowdell Reserve, 414 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Penruddock Rse near Highcrest Hts, 103 m away · route 44
- Penruddock Rise near Sedbergh Place, 318 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Westmorland, 444 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Westmorland ran about $700 a week, $150 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 1
- Poles and Signage - General, 1
- Parks, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Light, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Rubbish and Bins - General, 4 Nov 2025 3 Highcrset Height - NOT 4 - Broken hinge on red bin. Was ok this morning before pickup.
Damaged Street Light, 7 Nov 2024 Cnr Penruddock snd Highcrest … light out… but flashes every few seconds very bright flash.
- Facility - General Request, 28 Sept 2023
Poles and Signage - General, 15 Sept 2022 Traffic light at corner of Worsleys Road and Cashmere Road has no green arrow. Traffic heading along Hoon Hay Road and wanting to turn right
Parks, 20 Jan 2021 Wire rope broken at entrance to Highcrest Reserve. Reserve has just been mowed, and normally wire rope is taken down, by unlocking padlock
Elsewhere on Highcrest Heights
- 4 Highcrest Heights, 4 reports
- 5 Highcrest Heights, 2 reports
- 26 Highcrest Heights, 2 reports
- 9 Highcrest Heights, 1 report
- 30 Highcrest Heights, 1 report
- 28 Highcrest Heights, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere 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.
Highcrest Heights, the whole record → · Everything about Westmorland → · 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 January 2021, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), poles and signage - general (1), parks (1).
Westmorland, Christchurch, on Highcrest Heights.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Highcrest Reserve, 24 m to its edge.



