8 Ernest Adams Drive
5 council reports since May 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Ernest Adams Drive.
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
- Cholmondeley Reserve, 161 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Governors Bay Community Centre And Pool, 387 m to the edge · playground, 13 pieces
- Governors Bay Scenic Reserve, 488 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, 174 m away · Transfer station
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Ōtoromiro Hotel, 351 m away · Restaurants
- Over The Hill, 365 m away · Cafés
- Harbour House, 367 m away · Cafés
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
- International Year of the Volunteer 2001, 214 m away ·
INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE VOLUNTEER 2001
· 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 3 May 2025 There is overgrown/fallen vegetation hanging over the road of Bay Heights as you enter from the roundabout. This road is already extremely n
Damaged Road, 24 Jan 2025 Sinkhole forming around the fire hydrant on roundabout. Currently has a cavity under the roadway with the seal starting to collapse.
Pothole, 21 Jul 2024 Multi pothole and cracks
- Overgrown Vegetation, 20 Jun 2024
Hi team. There is a lot of overgrown vegetation hanging over a retaining wall / bank area on the LEFT side of Bay Heights as you enter from
- Pothole, 30 May 2023
Elsewhere on Ernest Adams Drive
- 1 Ernest Adams Drive, 5 reports
- 7 Ernest Adams Drive, 1 report
- 2 Ernest Adams Drive, 1 report
- 10 Ernest Adams Drive, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Ernest Adams Drive in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
Ernest Adams Drive, 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
5 council reports on record since May 2023, most often pothole (2), overgrown vegetation (2), damaged road (1).
Governors Bay, Christchurch, on Ernest Adams Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Cholmondeley Reserve, 161 m to its edge, 1 ha.


