# 25A Silvester Street, Woolston

12 reports on record since July 2021 · 7 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/woolston/25a-silvester-street

## What gets reported here
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/problems/stormwater), 3
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/problems/water-leaks), 2
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/problems/dumped-rubbish), 2
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/problems/potholes), 1
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/problems/overgrown-vegetation), 1
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/problems/graffiti), 1

## Reported here
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8096664), 16 Apr 2026
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/6511152), 22 Jun 2025
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/5403434), 13 Nov 2024
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/4969746), 6 Aug 2024
- [Overgrown Vegetation](https://www.chch.live/report/3683634), 10 Sept 2023
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/3114103), 26 Feb 2023
- [Dumped Rubbish](https://www.chch.live/report/3114100), 26 Feb 2023
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/2908990), 20 Dec 2022
- [Abandoned Vehicle](https://www.chch.live/report/2662621), 27 Sept 2022
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/2620838), 13 Sept 2022

## Photographed here (7 on record)
- [Pothole](https://www.chch.live/report/8096664), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/08096664/public/1_dxkpv7tfe76i.jpg
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/6511152), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/06511152/public/1_0unadpt8mdz7.jpg
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/5403434), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05403434/public/1_mllcwoel2bc3.jpg
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/4969746), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/04969746/public/1_jraq9v6ym8pb.jpg
- [Water Leak](https://www.chch.live/report/2620838), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/02620838/public/1_hiteqqyik3n.jpg
- [Street Gutters / Storm Water](https://www.chch.live/report/2536180), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/02536180/public/1_96voe9z1ceg8.jpg
- [Graffiti](https://www.chch.live/report/1678593), https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/snapsendsolve-reports/images/01678593/1_t0wY2u.jpg

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

## Also reported on Silvester Street
- [25D Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/25d-silvester-street), 22 reports
- [21 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/21-silvester-street), 9 reports
- [47 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/47-silvester-street), 7 reports
- [16 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/16-silvester-street), 7 reports
- [35 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/35-silvester-street), 4 reports
- [10 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/10-silvester-street), 4 reports
- [54 Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/54-silvester-street), 3 reports
- [39A Silvester Street](https://www.chch.live/woolston/39a-silvester-street), 3 reports
- [Silvester Street, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/woolston/silvester-street)

## From the air, then
- [1940-1944](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5477&lon=172.6726&decade=1940_1944), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5477&lon=172.6726&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
- [1975-1979](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.5477&lon=172.6726&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
- [Woolston Park Bowling Club](https://www.chch.live/business/woolston-park-bowling-club-woolston), 50 m away · Sports centres
- [Woolston Rugby Football League Club](https://www.chch.live/business/woolston-rugby-football-league-club-woolston), 248 m away · Clubs
- [BestStart Ferry Road](https://www.chch.live/business/beststart-ferry-road-woolston), 250 m away · Education & tutoring
- [Woolston Development Project](https://www.chch.live/business/woolston-development-project-woolston), 287 m away · Association

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

## The bus nearby
- Ferry Rd near Tilford St, 258 m away · [route 3](https://www.chch.live/buses/3)
- Ferry Rd near Smith St, 311 m away · [route 3](https://www.chch.live/buses/3)

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

## The remembered names nearby
- [George Wears Samms 1882 – 1954 Lily Samms Scott 1909 – 2005](https://www.chch.live/plaque/54542-woolston-park), 71 m away, “GEORGE WEARS SAMMS 1882 – 1954 LILY SAMMS SCOTT 1909 – 2005 FOR ALL TO ENJOY” · 2009
- [Woolston Park plaque](https://www.chch.live/plaque/310934-woolston-park), 236 m away · 2009
- [This Garden Is Dedicated to the Memory of James McCombs](https://www.chch.live/plaque/54470-woolston-park), 241 m away, “THIS GARDEN IS DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF JAMES McCOMBS AND HIS WIFE ELIZABETH REID McCOMB…” · 2009

*The plaque pins come from the register, a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## 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_

### [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 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 Silvester Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=silvester-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
*213 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
- [Woolston Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1099-woolston-park), 2 m to the edge · Sports ground · 5 ha · playground, 23 pieces
- [Christchurch Quay Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/908-christchurch-quay-reserve), 263 m to the edge · 1 ha
- [Mary Dixon Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1202-mary-dixon-park), 274 m to the edge

*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-97-woolston), 23 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-83-woolston), 220 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-535-woolston), 225 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-85-woolston), 261 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Woolston](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-69-woolston), 322 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 25A Silvester Street?**

12 council reports on record since July 2021, most often street gutters / storm water (3), water leak (2), dumped rubbish (2).

**What school is 25A Silvester 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=-43.547663522543054,172.67258131483496)

**Which suburb is 25A Silvester Street in?**

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

**What stood at 25A Silvester 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 25A Silvester Street?**

[Woolston Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1099-woolston-park), 2 m to its edge, 5 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=woolston&address=25a-silvester-street · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Woolston&street=silvester-street
