20 Smith Street
3 council reports since October 2020, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 180 Smith Street, 219 reports on file.
On the register here
- MED substation and setting (227m)
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, 28 m to the edge
- Woolston Park, 222 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- Arran Playground, 332 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
- Leaves at Portstone Cafe, 85 m away · Cafés
- Animal and Bird Hospital, 92 m away · Vets
- New Yesterdays, 99 m away · Clothing
- Portstone Garden Cafe, 104 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, 47 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 116 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 276 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
- Parks, 1
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 1 Aug 2025 Parking on the berm and causing damage to the grass.
- Graffiti, 23 Aug 2023
Parks, 28 Oct 2020 Mary Dixon Park illegal dumping
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
- 18 Smith Street, 13 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
3 council reports on record since October 2020, most often parks (1), hazard, vehicle (1), graffiti (1).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Smith Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, MED substation and setting.
Mary Dixon Park, 28 m to its edge.

