Fallen Tree520A Marine Drive
there are 4 dead trees on the road reserve where the head to head walkway comes out onto marine drive near the corner of Anderson's road. A fifth dead tree…
Charteris Bay, Christchurch
67 council reports since August 2016, the 103rd busiest suburb in the city. 47 photographs on record. 129 people at the most recent Census.
The record also holds 2023 Census snapshot· 47 photographs· 2 old photographs· 3 heritage places· 40 documents· 3 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
Rent: too few new bonds lodged here for Tenancy Services to publish a median this quarter, the last figure it released was about $575 a week, and it counts this under the much wider Diamond Harbour area, this locality sits inside it, so read the figure as the district’s.
Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.
Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 11 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 2 September 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 20 June 2026, 3 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 1,536 people and 693 occupied private households in the “Diamond Harbour” and “Teddington” areas, grouped from 13 SA1 areas. A wider statistical area stands in for this suburb, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.
Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.
About the suburb
Charteris Bay is a small settlement on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. The settlement is located on the south eastern side of Te Wharau / Charteris Bay, a large inlet of Lyttelton Harbour / Whakaraupō. The settlement sits between Diamond Harbour to the east and Teddington to the west.
As reported 47 on record
The suburb, back then 2 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Charteris Bay
- Charteris Bay enters the written record on 26 April 1851, “RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851)”, Papers Past.
- “Charteris Bay” appears somewhere in 68 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: roading/streets, 5 August 2016, at 35.
- Its busiest day on record was 20 June 2026, 3 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Marine Drive, reported on 26 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Street Gutters / Storm Water518 Marine Drive, Diamond Harbour
culvert under the road blocked by rocks at the harbour side, debris under the road, and vegetation on the other side of the road. in heavy rain, the drain…
Street Gutters / Storm Water131 Andersons Road
Culvert completely blocked. opposite the windy road sign on Anderson's Rd. Result is that water runs down the road and onto 518 Marine drive when it rains…
Damaged Street Sign520A Marine Drive
one speed limit sign has been rotated so that the 30 is not visible, the other has the circular sign removed. corner of Anderson's Rd and marine drive
Pavement - General460 Marine Drive
Hi, foreshore erosion, rocks becoming exposed on foreshore causing holes cud become hazardous. it is on a walkway away from the road near foreshore and it is…
Damaged RoadThe House and Garden People Charteris Bay Road
Recently resurfaced road surface, very quickly deteriorated and now unsafe to drive on.
Damaged Road144 Charteris Bay Road, Diamond Harbour
After having been sealed in the last two to three weeks, previous potholes are reappearing and new chip seal has been worn away in several places exposing…
Damaged Road269 Charteris Bay Road
Recently resurfacing on road has lifted. Loose gravel ++ Speed limit signs state 60kmph, but too fast for poor road condition. Very slippy, no grip, metal o…
Damaged Road209 Charteris Bay Road
Very dangerous corners. New seal has slumped and worked loose. One car has already gone over the edge. Car slides even when driven at suggested speed.
Roads - General426 Marine Drive, Governors Bay
Theres been a slip. Tress pushed down the bank. Has been tidied up. But need more work. Vegetation is sitting on the wite live lane line.
Damaged Road144 Charteris Bay Road, Diamond Harbour
This road was resealed less than a year ago and is now filled with temporary repairs again. What steps are being taken to hold the contractors to account for…
Reports per year up 100% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
The suburb today
No boundary is on record for Charteris Bay, the joins that count inside an outline (the crash tally, the ground layers, the area figures) stay unanswered rather than guessed.
Before any of that
On the register here
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Charteris Bay, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
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RURAL SECTIONS CHOSEN. (Lyttelton Times, 26 April 1851)
…he starting point and numbered 123 on the chief surveyor map no 124 g h roive 50 acres in charteris bay port victoria the western side of the bay with sea frontage and bounded on the e by the creek ru…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853)
…n of the clear annual value of 5 and six calendar months residence freeholder barton farm charteris bay and lease holder quail island port victoria freeholder rural section no 315 freeholder cluclteng…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 16 August 1854)
…n of the clear annual value of 5 and six calendar months residence freeholder barton farm charteris bay and lease holder quail island port victoria freeholder rural section no 315 freeholder cluclteng…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 22 July 1857)
unreserved sale by auction in charteris bay under a writ from the supreme court of new zealand messrs f noble campbell and co have received…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 August 1857)
…rum teviot dale dr mccheane lvttelton j mr minchin christchurch mccormack sumner dr moore charteris bay mr j h moore ferry road augustus moore lincoln road norton papanui parkinson lyttelton c j perce…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 26 August 1857)
…rum teviot dale dr mccheane lyttelton mr minchin christchurch mccormack sumner i dr moore charteris bay mr j h moore ferry road augustus moore lincoln road norton papanui v parkinson lyttelton c j per…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 29 August 1857)
…ldrum teviot dale dr mccheane lyttelton mr minchin christehurch mccormack sumner dr moore charteris bay mr j h moore ferry road augustus moore lincoln road norton papanui parkinson lyttelton c j perce…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Markets. (Lyttelton Times, 06 February 1858)
…the town of lyttelton at the corner of dublin street and norwich quay for 410 barton farm charteris bay containing 164 acres with buildings and improvements thereon was sold by private contract to mr…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 10 February 1858)
…dington william christchurch stock owner fawcett james riccarton bricklayer fawcett peter charteris bay landholder fendall walpole c fendall town farmer fendall charles w fendall town farmer field str…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1859)
…1218 0 rubai lands island heathcote estuary 6 1076 o2 0 10 0 gibbie bay 6 1492 2 2 0 500 charteris bay 7 1587 9 0 0 18 0 0 prebbleton 8 1595 1 0 0 2 0 0 tai tapu 2 1596 5 ofo 10 0 0 rangipra 10 1621…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
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The wire on Charteris Bay 3 lately
Something seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New ZealandiNaturalist · warwick5 ·
Australian Magpie seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New ZealandiNaturalist · melissa_hutchison ·
Monterey pine seen — Charteris Bay 8971, New ZealandiNaturalist · melissa_hutchison ·
41 more documents came up in searches for Charteris Bay's places and have not been read yet, a lead is a search result, not a fact, until somebody reads it.
Next door
Compare Charteris Bay with Diamond Harbour · Purau · Corsair Bay · Governors Bay · Te Rapaki o Te Rakiwhakaputa · Rapaki, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Charteris Bay?
Charteris Bay is a small settlement on Banks Peninsula in New Zealand. The public record holds 67 council reports for it, the first filed in August 2016.
How many people live in Charteris Bay?
129 people at the the most recent count Census.
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Charteris Bay?
About 1,536 people and 693 occupied private households (wider SA2 stand-in): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Charteris Bay?
67 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (48), trees & parks (9), water & drains (5). 11 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
What stood in Charteris Bay before?
The heritage register holds 3 places here, Former Charteris Bay School and Setting, Millhouse and Setting among them. The written record goes back further: the shelf, for the name →
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