Clifton, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: 6% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the mapped tsunami reach covers 5% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 5 parks, 1 track and 3 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 185 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 8 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 10 June 2023, 8 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Clifton is a hillside suburb above Sumner in Christchurch, New Zealand.

As reported 1,041 on record

1,041 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 12 in the archive

12 photographs
from back when →

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

Lately the newest reports

8 Oct 2026 Pothole50 Revelation Dr

This pot hole and others keep opening up outside 50 Revelation drive. The council puts a blob of tarmac in it which soon opens up due to lots heavy trucks…

4 Oct 2026 Bus Shelter IssueCanterbury

Saw today this Clifton Tce bus shelter @ corner of Main Rd & bottom of Clifton Hill, Sumner bus stop, had smashed glass at near end of shelter. This was…

4 Oct 2026 Street Cleaning300 Main Rd

Broken bus shelter with plenty of glass all over the footpath and cycles lanes on both sides. It does appear to be intentionally placed in lanes around Sumner

4 Oct 2026 Water Leak108 Panorama Rd

Current Water leak from pothole repair, smells like wastewater.

3 Oct 2026 Damaged Street Sign18 Starwood Ln

Broken street sign

2 Oct 2026 General Request258–296 Main Rd

1 Oct 2026 Facility - General Request1 Tuawera Tce

failed 4m retaining wall at 1 Tuawera is actively discharging clay slurry onto the road during rain. The eq-damaged wall is severely rotated and propped with…

1 Oct 2026 Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge258–296 Main Rd

1 Oct 2026 Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge258–296 Main Rd

1 Oct 2026 Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge258–296 Main Rd

28 Sept 2026 Overgrown Vegetation258–296 Main Rd

This garden needs attention

24 Sept 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water39B Tuawera Terrace

drain still blocked

How fast the council fixes things here 2,279 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Clifton took 8 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 5 months or longer. 107 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 19 January 2021.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Schools here

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Aratai College · and 3 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 5

• Sumner BeachRegional · 8 ha
• Brownlee Reserve3 ha · playground, 24 pieces
• Shag Rock Reserve
• Sumner Coronation Garden
• Starwood Reserveplayground, 2 pieces

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The tracks through here 1

• Walk and bike track through Clifton4.0 km · Christchurch · walk · bike

Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The line the Crown drew

The Crown’s 2011 classification drew 5.6% of this outline inside the residential red zone. A mapped area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a classification is the record of a decision, not a finding about an address; the whole line is drawn at /redzone.

The mapped tsunami extent covers 5% of this outline. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.

The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 14% of this outline, about 12 hectares, rockfall management area 1, cliff collapse management area 2, mass movement management area 2. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 83% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

1 parcel inside this outline sits on the hazardous-activities register, mostly chemical manufacture, application and bulk storage, 1 still doing the work. A listing records the work, not a soil test; the whole register is drawn at /hazards.

The files record 56 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, about 6 hectares, mostly loess, silt, engineered fill. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The rockfall survey mapped 136 rocks inside this outline across 81 survey pins, 77 came down, 4 still wobble easy. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.

1 parcel inside this outline carries a cleanup on the file, 1 marked verified. A cleanup on the file is the register’s word, not a clearance; the whole register is drawn at /remediated.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 94% of this outline in the "unlikely" class. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The register puts 1 engineered rockfall defence inside this outline, 1 mesh drape. Nearly all are the emergency works the quake years left standing; the whole register is drawn at /defences.

The council’s structure register stands 20 assets on this ground, 17 sets of steps, 3 boardwalks, sited at Sumner Beach, Brownlee Reserve, Port Hills 12 Rrz Land, Shag Rock. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 137 living trees inside this outline, 22 carrying a protection, mostly Radiata Pine (w), Pohutukawa, Canary Island Palm. The file remembers 83 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 73% of this outline under Residential Hills, 75% residential, the rest mostly Transport 13%, Rural Port Hills 5%. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s exceptions touch 2% of this outline, 5 qualifying matters, mostly section 6, heritage. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, 1 graded highly significant, Dwelling and Setting. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 100% of this outline, about 85 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 2% of this outline across 1 scheduled site, all protected under Schedule A. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 5% of this outline across 3 scheduled areas, 1% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 29% of it sits inside the coastal environment. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 19 classified reaches, the plan calling Panorama Road Outfall and Kinsey Terrace Drain by name, 2% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 10 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 2% of it inside the residential overlays, the densest standing Hills. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 1,494 photographs on this ground, 2010–2016, stormwater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The pedal network threads this ground, 6.2 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 3 inscribed plaques, Shag Rock Reserve, Brownlee Reserve among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 6 drawn instruments, 6 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 7 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.5 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

The crash record 19 injury crashes

19 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Clifton's outline, 1 person killed, 9 seriously hurt.

The corner that keeps appearing: Main Road at Shag Rock, 6 injury crashes, 1 fatal.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 90 recorded victimisations

90 victimisations on the Police record inside Clifton’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 12 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 5% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 3 stops

3 Metro stops inside Clifton's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 3.

• Clifton Tce and Main Rd
• Main Rd near Marriner St
• Main Rd near Mulgans Trk

Every route in the record →

Businesses here 5 in the directory

5 premises in Clifton across 4 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• Bottle stores2
• Attractions1
• Clubs1
• Venues & events1

The whole directory →

On the register here

1. Dwelling and Setting1 The Spur

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Clifton, 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.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Clifton 1 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Clifton with Richmond Hill · Moncks Bay · Sumner · Redcliffs · Scarborough · Southshore, same record, side by side.

Questions, answered briefly