# 1700 Summit Road, Governors Bay

1 report on record since November 2024 · 1 with photographs.

https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/1700-summit-road

## What gets reported here
- Facility - General Request, 1

## Reported here
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/5448188), 22 Nov 2024

## Photographed here (1 on record)
- [Facility - General Request](https://www.chch.live/report/5448188), https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/05448188/public/1_z9aj99nran8.jpg

[More photographs on the Governors Bay wall](https://www.chch.live/wall?suburb=governors-bay)

## Also reported on Summit Road
- [2129–2157 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/2129%E2%80%932157-summit-road), 10 reports
- [1951 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/1951-summit-road), 8 reports
- [1809 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/1809-summit-road), 7 reports
- [701 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/701-summit-road), 4 reports
- [2069 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/2069-summit-road), 4 reports
- [2020 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/2020-summit-road), 4 reports
- [2026–2028 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/2026%E2%80%932028-summit-road), 3 reports
- [2089–2121 Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/governors-bay/2089%E2%80%932121-summit-road), 2 reports
- [Summit Road, the whole record](https://www.chch.live/street/governors-bay/summit-road)

## From the air, then
- [1925-1929](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.6065&lon=172.6452&decade=1925_1929), CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
- [1970-1974](https://api.chch.live/historic-aerial?lat=-43.6065&lon=172.6452&decade=1970_1974), CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

*Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Clean CC BY decades only; NZAM-covered spots stay out. [RetroLens](https://retrolens.co.nz/) holds more Crown aerials.*

## On the doorstep
- [Sign of the Kiwi](https://www.chch.live/business/sign-of-the-kiwi-governors-bay), 12 m away · Restaurants

*Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.*

## The remembered names nearby
- [Sister City Garden](https://www.chch.live/plaque/86177-coronation-hill-reserve), 23 m away, “Sister City Garden / (dedication text partly illegible)” · 2009

*The plaque pins come from the register, a recorded spot, not a surveyed one. The whole roll: [plaques](https://www.chch.live/plaques).*

## The rating valuation
- Capital value: $900,000, land $365,000, improvements $535,000 · 201,095 m² · ref 23562/65600 · roll last edited April 2025

A mass appraisal the council runs every three years to divide the rates bill, not a market price, and not a valuation of this house in particular.

## Enrolment zones this address sits inside

*Zones nest, a point is inside a primary, an intermediate and a secondary zone at once. The written scheme, not the polygon, decides.*
- [Governors Bay School](https://www.chch.live/school/3354-governors-bay-school), Primary, years 1–8, in force from May 2022

## Bin day (Wednesdays)

Bins go out Wednesday, by 6am.
- Green bin, Weekly
- Yellow bin, Fortnightly · Week Two
- Red bin, Fortnightly · Week Two

This address is on the council’s Week Two calendar, which of the red and yellow bins goes out alternates, and that alternation is not published as data, so the council’s collection calendar is the check.

## What the land record says

### What has been here
- **Sign of the Kiwi and Setting**, [Heritage](https://www.chch.live/heritage) · Sign of the Kiwi and Setting and Sign of the Kiwi _Category 1 · Highly Significant · Operative_

These are modelled boundaries, not findings on this house, for anything with money attached, the council’s LIM is the certified property file. [Request a LIM](https://ccc.govt.nz/consents-and-licences/property-information-and-lims/land-information-memorandum-lim) · [Natural Hazards Portal](https://www.naturalhazardsportal.govt.nz).

## The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Summit Road in 41 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 16 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

[The crashes it names, each one →](https://www.chch.live/crashes?road=summit-road&suburb=governors-bay)

## The civic layer

This ground votes in [Banks Peninsula ward](https://www.chch.live/wards/banks-peninsula), the [Banks Peninsula community board](https://www.chch.live/boards/banks-peninsula) 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](https://www.chch.live/wards).

## What was here, Sign of the Kiwi Grounds and Setting
*on this spot · 1700 Summit Road · located to ±38 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/459)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.

## What was here, Sign of the Kiwi and Setting
*on this spot · 1700 Summit Road · located to ±12 m · [the place’s own record](https://www.chch.live/place/61)*
- On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
- Heritage New Zealand list entry: https://www.heritage.org.nz/the-list/details/1930

## The green nearby
- [Coronation Hill Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1793-coronation-hill-reserve), you are in it · Regional · 4 ha
- [Marleys Hill](https://www.chch.live/park/1596-marleys-hill), 28 m to the edge · Regional · 21 ha
- [Sugarloaf Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1522-sugarloaf-reserve), 40 m to the edge · Regional · 110 ha
- [Thomson Scenic Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/928-thomson-scenic-reserve), 234 m to the edge · Regional · 30 ha
- [Reuter Park](https://www.chch.live/park/1651-reuter-park), 457 m to the edge · Regional · 23 ha

*Within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.*

## The tracks through here
- [Walk and bike track through Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-527-cashmere), 36 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-525-cashmere), 46 m to the line · walk · bike
- [Walk and bike track through Governors Bay](https://www.chch.live/track/walk-539-cashmere), 244 m to the line · walk · bike

*Lines passing within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.*

## Questions, answered briefly

**What has been reported at 1700 Summit Road?**

1 council report on record since November 2024, most often facility - general request (1).

**What school is 1700 Summit Road zoned for?**

[Governors Bay School](https://www.chch.live/school/3354-governors-bay-school), and inside the region-wide zone of Cashmere High School, St Anne's School (Woolston), Hagley Community College, Aidanfield Christian School, Marian College, Middleton Grange School (Year 11-13), Christchurch Adventist School, St Thomas of Canterbury College. Indicative only, the school’s written enrolment scheme is the legal boundary, and it is redrawn, sometimes at short notice. [These zones on the map →](https://www.chch.live/schools?at=-43.606506698791144,172.64516580011795)

**Which suburb is 1700 Summit Road in?**

Governors Bay, Christchurch, on [Summit Road](https://www.chch.live/street/governors-bay/summit-road).

**What stood at 1700 Summit Road before?**

The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, [Sign of the Kiwi Grounds and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/459), [Sign of the Kiwi and Setting](https://www.chch.live/place/61).

**What is the nearest park to 1700 Summit Road?**

[Coronation Hill Reserve](https://www.chch.live/park/1793-coronation-hill-reserve), the address is inside it, 4 ha.

Data: https://api.chch.live/address?suburb=governors-bay&address=1700-summit-road · Reports: https://api.chch.live/reports.rss?suburb=Governors%20Bay&street=summit-road
