17 Kumara Place
2 council reports since May 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 16 Kumara Place, 9 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
- Kumara Reserve, you are in it · playground, 17 pieces
- Kaniere Reserve, 142 m to the edge · 3 ha
- Matangi Reserve, 271 m to the edge · playground, 44 pieces
- Wycola Park, 307 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 63 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Suburban Stays, 187 m away · Hostels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Hei Hei ran about $580 a week, $30 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Trees - General, 11 Nov 2025 Urgent : branch cut and hanging over pavement . Branch is 20cm in diameter and approximately 3-5m in length . This looks like wilful damage
Overgrown Vegetation, 5 May 2025 Mushrooms growing in kids play area.
Elsewhere on Kumara Place
- 16 Kumara Place, 9 reports
- 4 Kumara Place, 3 reports
- 9 Kumara Place, 2 reports
- 15 Kumara Place, 2 reports
- 11 Kumara Place, 2 reports
- 7 Kumara Place, 1 report
- 6 Kumara Place, 1 report
- 18 Kumara Place, 1 report
The civic layer
This ground votes in Hornby ward, the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton 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.
Kumara Place, the whole record → · Everything about Hei Hei → · 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
2 council reports on record since May 2025, most often trees - general (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Hei Hei, Christchurch, on Kumara Place.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Kumara Reserve, the address is inside it.

