20A Purau Avenue
2 council reports since December 2025, 2 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 (121m)
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, 468 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 Cemetery, 164 m away · Cemetery
- Diamond Harbour Library, 169 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Diamond Harbour & Bays Bowling Club, 52 m away · Clubs
- Stoddart Cottage, 105 m away · Galleries
- Diamond Harbour Rugby Football Club, 173 m away · Clubs
- Flaunt Hair Design, 192 m away · Hairdressers
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, 199 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, 240 m away ·
REST A WHILE ON JOHN'S SEAT AND FIND PEACE
· 2008 - Rest Awhile on / Johns Seat / and Find Peace, 245 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
- Pothole, 2
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Pothole, 19 Aug 2026 Many requests have been made for the repair of this access road to the Diamond Harbour Bowling Club, Croquet Club and Play center. It would
Pothole, 12 Dec 2025 these potholes gave been logged with ticket number H09418134. the email tells me they have been made safe. nothing has changed they are stil
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
2 council reports on record since December 2025, most often pothole (2).
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.