16 Silvester Street
7 council reports since January 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25D Silvester Street, 22 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED substation and setting (237m)
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
- Woolston Park, 25 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Christchurch Quay Reserve, 266 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Mary Dixon Park, 297 m to the edge
- Radley Playground, 484 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Woolston Park Bowling Club, 72 m away · Sports centres
- Woolston Rugby Football League Club, 264 m away · Clubs
- BestStart Ferry Road, 274 m away · Education & tutoring
- Gull Woolston, 311 m away · Petrol stations
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 Woolston, 46 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 207 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 249 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 249 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 302 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- George Wears Samms 1882 – 1954 Lily Samms Scott 1909 – 2005, 88 m away ·
GEORGE WEARS SAMMS 1882 – 1954 LILY SAMMS SCOTT 1909 – 2005 FOR ALL TO ENJOY
· 2009 - This Garden Is Dedicated to the Memory of James McCombs, 243 m away ·
THIS GARDEN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES McCOMBS AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH REID McCOMB
· 2009
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Woolston ran about $511 a week, $39 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 8 Jan 2026
Roads - General, 15 Aug 2025 Rocks on public road. Limits parking and I saw one get caught under a car doing a u- turn
Trees - General, 12 Sept 2024 Branch off tree. Most trees damaged on Silvester Street from machinery from water pipes being replaced. Could the trees have some love pleas
- Fallen Tree, 10 Oct 2023
- Fallen Tree, 3 Oct 2023
Roading/Streets, 16 Feb 2019
Area around tree needs sorting out. Please give all of Silvester street some long overdue TLC!
Roading/Streets, 28 Jan 2019
Could this verge side please be cleaned up. No grass grows here, only big weeds and self seeded samplings. Could it possibly be sealed? Car
Elsewhere on Silvester Street
- 25D Silvester Street, 22 reports
- 25A Silvester Street, 12 reports
- 21 Silvester Street, 9 reports
- 47 Silvester Street, 7 reports
- 35 Silvester Street, 4 reports
- 10 Silvester Street, 4 reports
- 54 Silvester Street, 3 reports
- 39A Silvester Street, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Silvester Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Linwood ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Silvester Street, the whole record → · Everything about Woolston → · 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
7 council reports on record since January 2019, most often roading/streets (2), fallen tree (2), trees - general (1).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Silvester Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED substation and setting.
Woolston Park, 25 m to its edge, 5 ha.