18 Smith Street
13 council reports since July 2022, 13 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 180 Smith Street, 219 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED substation and setting (210m)
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
- Mary Dixon Park, you are in it
- Woolston Park, 205 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Arran Playground, 354 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces
- Christchurch Quay Reserve, 496 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Animal and Bird Hospital, 65 m away · Vets
- Leaves at Portstone Cafe, 70 m away · Cafés
- New Yesterdays, 77 m away · Clothing
- Portstone Garden Cafe, 89 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 Woolston, 59 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 89 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 260 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 492 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
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 13 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Jul 2026
Pavement - Damaged, 6 Nov 2025 this depression doesn't look like much but it is quite dangerous, I just fell after stepping into it by acc
Dumped Rubbish, 22 Aug 2025 Mattress and base
Animal - Deceased, 17 Jun 2025 Dead hedgehog stuck in the river by the bank
Dumped Rubbish, 17 Jun 2025 Old green recycling crate, green waste caught in the river
Dumped Rubbish, 11 Jun 2025 Dumped rubbish was in the park has now been dumped in the river There is also a trolley from The Warehouse and a trolley from Mad Butcher i
Dumped Rubbish, 25 May 2025 Rubbish dumped in trolley then in stream
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Oct 2024 Dumped rubbish inside Mary Dixon park ferry road/ smith Street woolston
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Oct 2024 Dumped rubbish inside Mary Dixon park , ferry road
Dumped Rubbish, 23 Sept 2024
Dumped Rubbish, 17 Sept 2024 Dumped rubbish,outside park, between 18-14 smith Street, woolston
Pavement - Damaged, 23 Aug 2024 Potholes
Pothole, 31 Jul 2022 North bound lane
Elsewhere on Smith Street
- 180 Smith Street, 219 reports
- 117 Smith Street, 81 reports
- 140 Smith Street, 45 reports
- 119 Smith Street, 38 reports
- 8 Smith Street, 35 reports
- 19P Smith Street, 29 reports
- 141 Smith Street, 26 reports
- 130 Smith Street, 12 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Smith Street in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.
Smith 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
13 council reports on record since July 2022, most often dumped rubbish (9), pavement - damaged (2), pothole (1).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Smith Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED substation and setting.
Mary Dixon Park, the address is inside it.











