19 Purau Avenue
6 council reports since November 2019, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 20B Purau Avenue, 15 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage, 18 Purau Avenue (66m)
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
- Stoddart Point Reserve, 13 m to the edge · 22 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Rawhiti Street Reserve, 396 m to the edge
- Kirk Park, 453 m to the edge · playground, 15 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Diamond Harbour Library, 125 m away · Library
- Diamond Harbour Cemetery, 223 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Stoddart Cottage, 88 m away · Galleries
- Diamond Harbour Rugby Football Club, 123 m away · Clubs
- Diamond Harbour & Bays Bowling Club, 126 m away · Clubs
- Diamond Harbour Surgery, 162 m away · Doctors & clinics
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
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
- This Memorial Marks the 50th Anniversary of the End of WWII, 190 m away ·
THIS MEMORIAL MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WWII / (1939 - 1945) / D H COMMUNIT
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Flooding, 26 Dec 2024 A huge pol of water at top of access road to playcentre bowls club etc. water is channeling straight down into bowls club despite recent wor
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 5 Jan 2024 Water ponding from unlined drain. Sediment flowing into harbour down hillside. Trees and parking area being undercut by water
Water Pollution - Sediment, 5 Jan 2024 Large amount of sediment blocking footpath and drain. Sediment running off in stormwater down to harbour. Drain was blocked during rain caus
- Flooding, 5 Nov 2023
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 29 Nov 2022
Roading/Streets, 18 Nov 2019
parked over footpath and Whit line on bend. very dangerous
Elsewhere on Purau Avenue
- 20B Purau Avenue, 15 reports
- 92 Purau Avenue, 9 reports
- 76 Purau Avenue, 9 reports
- 191 Purau Avenue, 7 reports
- 90 Purau Avenue, 6 reports
- 50 Purau Avenue, 6 reports
- 20 Purau Avenue, 6 reports
- 2 Purau Avenue, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Purau Avenue in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula 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.
Purau Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Diamond Harbour → · 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
6 council reports on record since November 2019, most often street gutters / storm water (2), flooding (2), water pollution - sediment (1).
Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, on Purau Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage.
Stoddart Point Reserve, 13 m to its edge, 22 ha.


