20 Purau Avenue
6 council reports since April 2020, 3 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 (76m)
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, you are in it · 22 ha · playground, 7 pieces
- Rawhiti Street Reserve, 479 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, 102 m away · Library
- Diamond Harbour Cemetery, 141 m away · Cemetery
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Stoddart Cottage, 34 m away · Galleries
- Diamond Harbour & Bays Bowling Club, 81 m away · Clubs
- Diamond Harbour Rugby Football Club, 110 m away · Clubs
- Diamond Harbour Eatery and Bar, 121 m away · Cafés
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, 120 m away ·
THIS MEMORIAL MARKS THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE END OF WWII / (1939 - 1945) / D H COMMUNIT
· 2008 - Rest a While on John'S Seat and Find Peace, 215 m away ·
REST A WHILE ON JOHN'S SEAT AND FIND PEACE
· 2008 - Rest Awhile on / Johns Seat / and Find Peace, 225 m away ·
REST AWHILE ON / JOHNS SEAT / AND FIND PEACE.
· 1899
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Animal - General, 15 Oct 2025 Hi, there is a very aggressive magpie around the DH rugby field, Stoddart point and Playcentre. This has been going on for about 2 months, g
- Overgrown Vegetation, 3 Dec 2022
- Water Leak, 30 Sept 2022
Parks, 19 Mar 2022 At the back entrance to Diamond Harbour Playcentre (backs onto Stoddard Point) there are a few trees clustered together which are overgrown
- Parks, 20 Feb 2022
At the back entrance to Diamond Harbour Playcentre, on the rugby fields there is a cluster of trees overgrown with vines. One of the trees i
Water Supply, 17 Apr 2020
Water pouring out of the ground at upper Stoddard weir Diamond Harbour
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
- 2 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 April 2020, most often parks (2), water supply (1), water leak (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, the address is inside it, 22 ha.