2 Purau Avenue
6 council reports since November 2018, 6 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 (198m)
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, 71 m to the edge · 22 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Coastal Cliff Reserve, 108 m to the edge · 18 ha
- Kirk Park, 278 m to the edge · playground, 15 pieces
- Rawhiti Street Reserve, 331 m to the edge
- Jervois Close Park, 442 m to the edge
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, 176 m away · Library
- Diamond Harbour Cemetery, 397 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Diamond Harbour Medical Centre, 130 m away · Doctor
- Diamond Harbour Country Store and Cafe, 149 m away · Cafés
- Godley Cafe, 164 m away · Cafés
- Diamond Harbour Rugby Football Club, 165 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; 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, 245 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Road Signage, 25 Jun 2026 Someone is illegally and frequently passing a stopped school bus on Purau Avenue close to where Waipapa Avenue turns off to go up the hill.
Overgrown Vegetation, 25 Jan 2026 The footpath is unusable
Pavement - General, 6 Jan 2026 50 m of footpath plants require cutting back to allow pedestrian's safe passage off the road
Overgrown Vegetation, 22 Feb 2024 Agapanthus protruding over footpath
Roading/Streets, 6 Jan 2019
Yet another dangerous car blocking path. A young mum with a buggy has to almost into middle of road near a blind bend.
Roading/Streets, 11 Nov 2018
Overgrown footpath
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
- 193 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 2018, most often roading/streets (2), overgrown vegetation (2), road signage (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, 71 m to its edge, 22 ha.