18 Akau Place
3 council reports since February 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Akau Place.
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
- Bayswater Reserve, 50 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 9 pieces
- Kensington Reserve, 187 m to the edge
- St Florian Reserve, 271 m to the edge
- St Lukes East Drainage Reserve, 292 m to the edge
- Ti Rakau Reserve, 326 m to the edge · 3 ha · playground, 61 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Caravans, 229 m away · Caravan
- Kidbrooke Convenience, 240 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Christchurch Kiwi Holiday Park and Motels, 253 m away · Campgrounds
- Oderings Garden Centre, 386 m away · Garden centres
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Linwood Ave near Kidbrooke St, 252 m away · route 140
- Linwood Ave near Kidbrooke St, 269 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Bromley, 228 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bromley, 275 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bromley, 365 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bromley, 456 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Bromley, 464 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 open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Bromley ran about $560 a week, $10 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 1
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 8 Feb 2026 This cone has been sitting outside 18 Akau Place for a while now and I’m not sure where it came from. Can someone please come collect it?
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 15 Jan 2026 The street gutter outside 18 Akau Place has draining issues so every time it rains there is major flooding. The first photo shows the gutter
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 10 Feb 2025
New street, Akau Place, bins not emptied again. Same as last week. Needed to call the council. Three houses are occupied now. Please arrange
Elsewhere on Akau Place
- 21 Akau Place, 1 report
- 13 Akau Place, 1 report
- 12 Akau Place, 1 report
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.
Akau Place, the whole record → · Everything about Bromley → · 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 February 2025, most often street gutters / storm water (1), rubbish and bins - general (1), general request (1).
Bromley, Christchurch, on Akau Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bayswater Reserve, 50 m to its edge, 2 ha.

