298 Main Road
4 council reports since April 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 301 Main Road, 55 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 1 The Spur (185m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Sumner Beach, 31 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Sumner Coronation Garden, 40 m to the edge
- Shag Rock Reserve, 78 m to the edge
- Cave Rock Reserve, 367 m to the edge · Regional
- Shag Rock, 401 m to the edge · Regional
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Surf Life Saving Club, 32 m away · Clubs
- Sumner Coronation Garden, 82 m away · Attractions
- Big Bear Breakfast Burritos, 284 m away · Fast food
- Sumner Market, 284 m away · Markets
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 Clifton, 1 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Clifton, 435 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Loving Memory / David John Edgecombe / [], 234 m away ·
In Loving Memory / DAVID JOHN EDGECOMBE / [illegible] / In Loving Memory / Norm and Audrey
- In Loving Memory / David John Edgecombe / [], 235 m away ·
In Loving Memory / DAVID JOHN EDGECOMBE / [illegible] / In Loving Memory / Norm and Audrey
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 Clifton ran about $820 a week, $270 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
- Street Light Outage, 31 Mar 2026
There are 2 street lights out on the Main Road to Sumner…One by shag rock and the other just before you get to the turn off at Clifton Terra
Overgrown Vegetation, 25 Feb 2026 Hi, the trees are growing over into the bike lane in both sides of the road to and from Sumner. They will soon be right across the bike lane
Overgrown Vegetation, 6 Oct 2025 Hi, the vegetation along the bike lane towards Shag Rock is hanging over and obstructing the bike lane. Cheers Helen
Overgrown Vegetation, 29 Apr 2025 Vegetation is blocking cycle path causing bikes to go into lane to avoid. Hazardous.
Elsewhere on Main Road
- 301 Main Road, 55 reports
- 286 Main Road, 46 reports
- 300 Main Road, 43 reports
- 305 Main Road, 30 reports
- 288 Main Road, 30 reports
- 258–296 Main Road, 24 reports
- 264A Main Road, 14 reports
- 266A Main Road, 10 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main Road in 18 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 9 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Main Road, the whole record → · Everything about Clifton → · 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
4 council reports on record since April 2025, most often overgrown vegetation (3), street light outage (1).
Clifton, Christchurch, on Main Road.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting.
Sumner Beach, 31 m to its edge, 8 ha.