3 Portman Street
2 council reports since September 2022, 2 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
- Connal Reserve, 167 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Charlotte Lane Park, 180 m to the edge
- Thistledown Reserve, 212 m to the edge
- Laura Kent Reserve, 236 m to the edge
- Glenroy Reserve, 241 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Henry's, 19 m away · Bottle stores
- Physio NZ, 23 m away · Physio
- Roimata Medical Practice, 32 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Woolston Sports Bar, 42 m away · Bars & pubs
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, 48 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 218 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 264 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 280 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Woolston, 303 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.
The remembered names nearby
- Limestone Landed Here Was … for Use by Tanneries and Brick…, 205 m away ·
Limestone landed here was … for use by tanneries and brick…
· 2009
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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 2 on record
What’s on record
Water General, 2 Oct 2025 Submain shutoff off valve not working
Water General, 1 Sept 2022 Missing lid on water main. Has been getting turned off by members of the public as a joke as it's easy to access...
Elsewhere on Portman Street
- 40 Portman Street, 12 reports
- 29 Portman Street, 11 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
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
2 council reports on record since September 2022, most often water general (2).
Woolston, Christchurch, on Portman Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Connal Reserve, 167 m to its edge, 1 ha.

