701–825 Summit Road

From the air, then

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

• Mt Cavendish Reserve, you are in it · Regional · 26 ha
• Scotts Valley Reserve, 100 m to the edge · Regional · 130 ha
• Mt Pleasant Reserve, 387 m to the edge · Regional · 13 ha

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Shop at the Top, 167 m away · Gift shops
• Red Rock Cafe, 175 m away · Cafés
• Christchurch Discovery Ride, 177 m away · Attractions

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

Renting nearby

new bonds in Heathcote Valley ran about $750 a week, $200 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.

What gets reported here

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 3
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 3
• Roads - General, 2
• Water General, 1
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1
• Dumped Rubbish, 1

Photographed here 11 on record

more photographs
on the Heathcote Valley wall →

What’s on record

• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 4 Oct 2026 RACIST GRAFFITI. Please remove. This is discussing. Have already sent this two weeks ago, no response at all. So happy I pay rates. Thank yo
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 26 Sept 2026 Racist discussion tag on summit road. Also a NAZI swastiker. Please remove asap. Thank you.
• Dumped Rubbish, 29 May 2026 On his morning walk today at 8:30am approx. my partner saw the two occupants of this car throw two car tyres down into the valley.
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 19 May 2026 Tagging on retaining wall
• Roads - General, 9 Apr 2026 I cycle the closed gated part of Summit Road frequently between Rapaki Track top and Gondolla and swing more motor bikes illegally riding th
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 Mar 2026 Tagging on Summit Road
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 25 Feb 2026 Graffiti on rocks on summit road 100 yards east of the gondola crossing.
• Water General, 3 Dec 2025 Water leak. It’s running easily 20m down the road before going off road and into the paddock. Seems to be freshwater.
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 11 Apr 2025 Tagging on retaining wall on the Summit Road below the Gondola top station. Has been there for a long time and is visible from the Tunnel Ro
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 4 Apr 2025 Horrible graffiti on retaining wall below Summit Rd - gets seen for miles around below.
• Roads - General, 4 Apr 2025 A lot of broken glass right across the road. Extremely dangerous for cyclists descending. Down just past the barrier

Elsewhere on Summit Road

• 715 Summit Road, 16 reports
• 825 Summit Road, 10 reports
• 702 Summit Road, 9 reports
• 645 Summit Road, 8 reports
• 575 Summit Road, 8 reports
• 795 Summit Road, 7 reports
• 821 Summit Road, 3 reports
• 810 Summit Road, 3 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Summit Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

The civic layer

This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.