29 Portman Street
11 council reports since April 2018, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 40 Portman Street, 12 reports on file.
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
- Thistledown Reserve, 9 m to the edge
- Charlotte Lane Park, 107 m to the edge
- Glenroy Reserve, 267 m to the edge
- Cutler Park, 303 m to the edge · playground, 7 pieces
- Connal Reserve, 358 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
- Liquorland Woolston, 227 m away · Bottle stores
- Henry's, 228 m away · Bottle stores
- Fish & Chips on Ferry, 230 m away · Fast food
- Physio NZ, 243 m away · Physio
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, 270 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 390 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 409 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 486 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 497 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.
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, 6
- Water Leak, 2
- Park - General Request, 2
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 8 on record
What’s on record
Facility - General Request, 16 Oct 2025 The reserve by our Playcentre it looks like some trees have been cut and used as s bridge across the stream to Access our facility Looks li
Water Leak, 12 Sept 2025 Leak under road, has been reported multiple times and has not been resolved. Havent had a dry gutter in over 5 years
- Park - General Request, 17 Dec 2022
- Water Leak, 1 Nov 2022
- Park - General Request, 29 Oct 2022
Parks, 18 Dec 2021 Thistledown Reserve - Portman street entrance. Bridge damaged, timber rails need replacing. See photos.
Parks, 12 Dec 2020 Thistledown Reserve - greenwaste pile to be chipped up. Chip can be put in nearby garden beds. thanks
Parks, 28 Sept 2019
Thistledown Reserve - greenwaste/ rubbish pile to be removed. Unfortunately it has cabbage/flax leaves mixed in so will probably need to go
Parks, 13 Jul 2018
Greenwaste & rubbish removal at the end of Portman St (Thistledown Reserve). There is also rubbish to be removed at the end of Thistledown P
Parks, 28 Apr 2018
Dumped sofa at the end of Portman Street. Please instruct contractors to remove. Thanks
Parks, 28 Apr 2018
Thistledown Reserve. At the end of Portman Street. Please instruct contractors to remove greenwaste and also dumped sofa. Thanks
Elsewhere on Portman Street
- 40 Portman Street, 12 reports
- 8 Portman Street, 10 reports
- 32 Portman Street, 7 reports
- 30 Portman Street, 7 reports
- 8A Portman Street, 5 reports
- 25 Portman Street, 5 reports
- 14 Portman Street, 5 reports
- 16 Portman Street, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Portman Street in 7 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.
Portman 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
11 council reports on record since April 2018, most often parks (6), water leak (2), park - general request (2).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Portman Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thistledown Reserve, 9 m to its edge.



