# 18A Smith Street, Woolston

7 reports on record since May 2023 · 4 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/woolston/18a-smith-street

## What gets reported here
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/problems/dumped-rubbish), 3
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 2
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage), 1
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/problems/footpaths), 1

## Reported here
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/6774138), 21 Aug 2025
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/6764491), 19 Aug 2025
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/report/4984250), 9 Aug 2024
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/4672693), 17 May 2024
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3609384), 16 Aug 2023
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/3604359), 15 Aug 2023
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/3357638), 22 May 2023

## Photographed here (4 on record)
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/6774138), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/06774138/public/1_3fjzsknoqi9n.jpg
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/6764491), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/06764491/public/1_1pab638z34up.jpg
- [Accessibility](https://www.chch.live/report/4984250), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04984250/public/1_7hweykbhora.jpg
- [Damaged Street Sign](https://www.chch.live/report/4672693), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04672693/public/1_sa0odmvc4wjm.jpg

[More photographs on the Woolston wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=woolston)

## Also reported on Smith Street
- [180 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/180-smith-street), 219 reports
- [117 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/117-smith-street), 81 reports
- [140 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/140-smith-street), 45 reports
- [119 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/119-smith-street), 38 reports
- [8 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/8-smith-street), 35 reports
- [19P Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/19p-smith-street), 29 reports
- [141 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/141-smith-street), 26 reports
- [18 Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/18-smith-street), 13 reports
- [Smith Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/woolston/smith-street)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5439&lon=172.6719&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5439&lon=172.6719&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5439&lon=172.6719&decade=1975_1979), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [Leaves at Portstone Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/leaves-at-portstone-cafe-woolston), 77 m away · Cafés
- [Portstone Garden Cafe](https://www.chch.live/business/portstone-garden-cafe-woolston), 95 m away · Cafés
- [New Yesterdays](https://www.chch.live/business/new-yesterdays-woolston), 96 m away · Clothing
- [Portstone Garden Centre](https://www.chch.live/business/portstone-garden-centre-woolston), 98 m away · Garden centres

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The bus nearby
- Ferry Rd near Smith St, 116 m away · [route 3](https://www.chch.live/buses/3)
- Ferry Rd near Mackworth St, 148 m away · [route 3](https://www.chch.live/buses/3)

*The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.*

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Te Waka Unua School](https://www.chch.live/school/684-te-waka-unua-school), Primary, years 1–8, in force from Jul 2017
- [Te Aratai College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-9-15), Secondary, years 9–13, in force from Jan 2021
- [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), Composite, years 1–13, in force from Jan 2026

## Bin day (Mondays)

Bins go out Monday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week One
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week One

This address is on the council’s Week One calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### [What the ground is](https://www.chch.live/ground)
- **Up to 55% chance of moderate-to-severe land damage**, [Liquefaction](https://www.chch.live/liquefaction) · Across 30 modelled earthquake scenarios: 14% average likelihood of moderate-to-severe land damage, 55% in the worst modelled scenario.
- **Technical category TC2**, [Foundation category](https://www.chch.live/technical-categories) · Minor to moderate land damage from liquefaction is possible in future significant earthquakes _Foundations: Standard timber piled foundations or enhanced concrete foundations_

### Water
- **Inside the modelled 50-year flood extent**, [Flood risk, 50 year](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Heathcote catchment · 50 Year
- **Blue tsunami evacuation zone**, [Tsunami evacuation](https://www.chch.live/tsunami) · Evacuate zone after long or strong earthquake or in any official advisory or warning of greater than 0.3m wave height at coast _Zone includes sea, rivers, beaches, lagoons and estuaries._
- **In the coastal inundation hazard zone from 2065**, [Coastal inundation](https://www.chch.live/flood-hazard) · Inside the mapped coastal inundation zone in 5 modelled scenarios, covering 2065–2120 (RCP 8.5+, RCP 8.5, RCP 4.5, RCP 2.6). _Source: Coastal Hazard Assessment for Christchurch and Banks Peninsula (2017) Stage 2 Peer Review Panel Revision report_

### [Rules on this land](https://www.chch.live/rules)
- **Christchurch / Ōtautahi Clean Air Zone**, [Clean air zone](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Open fires and older woodburners are restricted here under the Canterbury Air Regional Plan. A burner installed before 2001 cannot be replaced like for like.
- **In the Christchurch Airshed**, [Gazetted airshed](https://www.chch.live/rules) · A gazetted airshed is the area the national air quality standard is measured over, the 24-hour PM10 average that this one is allowed to breach once a year. _Zone A_
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Te Waka Unua School**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Restriction on the location of new bottle stores, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of this site.
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Kimihia Parents College**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Restriction on the location of new bottle stores, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 200 m of this site.
- **Inside a bottle-store buffer around Areas of high deprivation**, [Bottle-store buffer](https://www.chch.live/rules) · Freeze on the issue of new off-licences, the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences a set distance of this site.

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## 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 crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=smith-street&suburb=woolston)

## 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 →](https://www.chch.live/woolston#s-living).

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Linwood ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/linwood), the [Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/coastal-burwood-linwood) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here, MED substation and setting
*246 m away · located to ±5 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/73)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## The green nearby
- [Mary Dixon Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1202-mary-dixon-park), 28 m to the edge
- [Woolston Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1099-woolston-park), 240 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- [Arran Playground](https://www.chch.live/park/1234-arran-playground), 339 m to the edge · playground, 6 pieces

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-84-woolston), 27 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-535-woolston), 119 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-97-woolston), 295 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 18A Smith Street?**

7 council reports on record since May 2023, most often dumped rubbish (3), graffiti (2), damaged street sign (1).

**What school is 18A Smith Street zoned for?**

[Te Waka Unua School](https://www.chch.live/school/684-te-waka-unua-school), [Te Aratai College (Year 9-15)](https://www.chch.live/school/337-te-aratai-college-year-9-15) and [Hillview Christian School](https://www.chch.live/school/341-hillview-christian-school), and inside the region-wide zone of St Anne's School (Woolston), Hagley Community College, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School, St Thomas of Canterbury College. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.54392392137387,172.67187941486554)

**Which suburb is 18A Smith Street in?**

Woolston, Christchurch, on [Smith Street](https://www.chch.live/street/woolston/smith-street).

**What stood at 18A Smith Street before?**

The heritage register names a place at or beside it, [MED substation and setting](https://www.chch.live/place/73).

**What is the nearest park to 18A Smith Street?**

[Mary Dixon Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1202-mary-dixon-park), 28 m to its edge.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=woolston&address=18a-smith-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Woolston&street=smith-street
