79 Main Road
4 council reports since September 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 75 Main Road, 11 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
- Governors Bay Community Centre And Pool, 18 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Governors Bay Scenic Reserve, 163 m to the edge
- Governors Bay Jetty, 319 m to the edge
- Cholmondeley Reserve, 344 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Stream Reserve, 418 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
- Governors Bay Recycling Depot, 385 m away · Transfer station
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Harbour House, 14 m away · Cafés
- Over The Hill, 19 m away · Cafés
- Ōtoromiro Hotel, 34 m away · Restaurants
- Govenors Bay Community Centre, 142 m away · Venues & events
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.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 14 Sept 2025 Give way sign has had a love trap. Bent and slightly kinked at the base
Overgrown Vegetation, 25 Oct 2024 Just wondering whether this is Giant hogweed adjacent to a public footpath.
Graffiti, 14 Dec 2023 On disability carpark sign at former cafe opposite governor's bay hotel
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 25 Sept 2023
Elsewhere on Main Road
- 75 Main Road, 11 reports
- 4 Main Road, 5 reports
- 36 Main Road, 4 reports
- 13 Main Road, 4 reports
- 112 Main Road, 4 reports
- 52 Main Road, 3 reports
- 45 Main Road, 3 reports
- 34 Main Road, 3 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Main Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 1 seriously hurt.
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.
Main Road, the whole record → · Everything about Governors Bay → · 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
4 council reports on record since September 2023, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), poles and signage - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Governors Bay, Christchurch, on Main Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Governors Bay Community Centre And Pool, 18 m to its edge.


