Gebbies Valley, Christchurch

44 council reports since May 2018, the 105th busiest suburb in the city. 36 photographs on record.

Reports, all time

In the year to 12 Oct 2026

Busiest in Christchurch

105th

Photographs

The record also holds 2023 Census snapshot 36 photographs 1 old photograph 18 documents 5 mentions on the wire

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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

Rent: too few new bonds lodged here for Tenancy Services to publish a median this quarter, the last figure it released was about $435 a week, and it counts this under the much wider Banks Peninsula South area, this locality sits inside it, so read the figure as the district’s.

Median and quartiles of weekly rents on new private bonds, by quarter. New bonds are fresh lodgements, not the whole rental stock; under five bonds the rent is withheld, and counts are randomly rounded. Source: Tenancy Services rental bond data: provisional while the bond system migrates.

Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 2 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 12 March 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 2 November 2024, 6 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People

1,287

Occupied households

516

About 1,287 people and 516 occupied private households in the “Banks Peninsula South” statistical area, grouped from 9 SA1 areas. A wider statistical area stands in for this suburb, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.

Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.

As reported 36 on record

1587 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Motukarara, Gebbies Valley 7672

1905 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Motukarara, Gebbies Valley 7672

432 McQueens Valley Road, Motukarara, Gebbies Valley 7672

1640 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Gebbies Valley 7672

36 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 1 in the archive

Looking up Gebbies Valley in the centre, McQuee... (PB0611/164), 1938

1 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The record on Gebbies Valley

Gebbies Valley enters the written record on 23 July 1869, “Local and General. (Star, 23 July 1869)”, Papers Past.
“Gebbies Valley” appears somewhere in 14 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 16 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
The first report the feed ever carried here: roading/streets, 16 May 2018, at 307 Mcqueens Valley Rd.
Its busiest day on record was 2 November 2024, 6 reports in a single day.
The street that keeps coming up is Christchurch Akaroa Road, reported on 10 separate days.
For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.

Lately the newest reports

12 Mar 2026 Road Signage1587 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Motukarara

this info sign as in Google foto, has been hit and is lying face down .

19 Jan 2026 Pothole1905 Christchurch Akaroa Road, Motukarara

pot hole has started to form over the weekend. bits of seal are being ripped up are cars go over.

Street Gutters / Storm Water, a report photo

7 Jun 2025 Street Gutters / Storm Water432 McQueens Valley Road, Motukarara

Blocked culvert that goes under road. Sign has number 16 on it.