23 James Drive
3 council reports since May 2020, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 James Drive, 4 reports on file.
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
- James Drive Reserve, you are in it · playground, 8 pieces
- Coastal Cliff Reserve, 143 m to the edge · 18 ha
- Church Bay Foreshore, 204 m to the edge · 3 ha
- Laurenson Park, 461 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 Recycling Depot, 383 m away · Transfer station
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Salt, 311 m away · Cafés
- Diamond Harbour Lodge, 314 m away · B&Bs
- Two Thumb Harbourside, 330 m away · Bars & pubs
- Four Square, 331 m away · Supermarkets
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
- Shambles / 1988 - 1998, 8 m away ·
Shambles / 1988 - 1998
· 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
- Parks, 2
- Roading/Streets, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Roading/Streets, 14 Sept 2021 Large dip getting bigger
Parks, 6 Feb 2021 the plank has quite a large crack in it, would be worth a look at maybe some reinforcing before it gets worse or breaks
Parks, 7 May 2020
james drive playground gouge in slide base
Elsewhere on James Drive
- 25 James Drive, 4 reports
- 58 James Drive, 3 reports
- 45 James Drive, 3 reports
- 43 James Drive, 3 reports
- 37 James Drive, 3 reports
- 61 James Drive, 2 reports
- 53 James Drive, 2 reports
- 50 James Drive, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names James Drive in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
James Drive, 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
3 council reports on record since May 2020, most often parks (2), roading/streets (1).
Diamond Harbour, Christchurch, on James Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
James Drive Reserve, the address is inside it.

