8 Cognac Drive
2 council reports since December 2023, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Cognac Drive.
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
- Philippe Avenue Reserve, 70 m to the edge · 1 ha
- F W Delamain Park, 86 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 48 pieces
- Roullet Lane Reserve, 92 m to the edge
- Ferdinand Terrace Reserve, 144 m to the edge
- Cognac Drive Reserve, 169 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
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 Yaldhurst ran about $650 a week, $100 above 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
Park - General Request, 31 Jan 2024 House owner has chopped down and removed a beautiful big tree from their front berm! They have also dug up all the berm grass and is now a m
Trees - General, 19 Dec 2023 Why has a seeming healthy, mature tree on council roadside verge been chopped down?
Elsewhere on Cognac Drive
- 5 Cognac Drive, 1 report
- 35 Cognac Drive, 1 report
- 17 Cognac Drive, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Cognac Drive, the whole record → · Everything about Yaldhurst → · 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 December 2023, most often trees - general (1), park - general request (1).
Yaldhurst, Christchurch, on Cognac Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Philippe Avenue Reserve, 70 m to its edge, 1 ha.

