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Le Bons Bay, Christchurch

41 council reports since November 2017, the 106th busiest suburb in the city. 25 photographs on record.

Reports, all time
41
In the year to 12 Oct 2026
8
Busiest in Christchurch
106th
Photographs
25

The record also holds 2023 Census snapshot 25 photographs 2 old photographs 2 parks 2 civic facilities 1 place of worship 14 names on the map the record drew water over 10% of the outline inside the broad slope-instability overlay the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 1% of the outline ecological sites over 1% of the outline landscape schedules over 84% of the outline setback strips over 6% of the outline 5 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground 2 remembered names on this ground 6 drawn rules bind this ground 1 parcels of made ground 1 council structure on the register 4 recreation register records 41 trees on the register the plan’s word on this ground 1 place on the heritage schedule 1 injury crashes 2 recorded victimisations the council’s fix times 40 documents 4 mentions on the wire

See it on the map Its decade, charted

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: the flood record drew water over 10% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 2 parks, 2 civic facilities and 1 place of worship, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly trees & parks, 8 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 10 June 2026.

One for the quiz, Le Bons Bay enters the written record on 22 August 1857, “Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 August 1857)”, Papers Past.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

People
651
Under 15
15%
65 and over
27%
Occupied households
276

About 651 people and 276 occupied private households in the “Banks Peninsula Eastern Bays” and “Diamond Harbour” areas, grouped from 6 SA1 areas. A wider statistical area stands in for this suburb, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.

More of the 2023 Census
  • Born overseas19% of stated birthplace
  • European ethnicity93% of ethnicity responses

Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.

Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.

As reported 25 on record

Canterbury, Le Bons Bay 75832399 Summit Road Region8 Rue de la Mer, Le Bons Bay 7583Canterbury, Le Bons Bay 7583Canterbury, Le Bons Bay 758352XC+8V, Goughs Bay 7583 25 photographs
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The suburb, back then 2 in the archive

St Andrew's Church, Le Bons Bay, Banks Peninsula, 1900Le Bons Bay N.Z., 1909 2 photographs
from back when →

Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.

The record on Le Bons Bay

Lately the newest reports

Public Toilet, a report photo
Public ToiletCanterbury

Red light shows spasmodic indicating over load water level. Can hear pump going. Light eventually goes out. Suspect blockage at disposal field which has to my…

Public ToiletCanterbury

The septic tank at le bons public toilet is showing a red light, which indicates there is an issue in the system. It may be full and need emptying, or it might…

Reports per year up 117% 2024→2025

What gets reported

Trees & parks 17
Water & drains 7
Roads & footpaths 6
Everything else 3
Noise 3 Animals & pests 3
Rubbish & dumping 2

Streets that keep coming up each a street page

Every street the archive knows in Le Bons Bay →

Exactly what people say

How fast the council fixes things here 205 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Le Bons Bay took 4 weeks to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 4 months or longer. 9 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 18 July 2023.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

The suburb today

Schools here

Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College · Duvauchelle School (part), the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 2

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf 2

Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.

Where the suburb worships 1

Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.

The names on this ground 14

The flood record drew water over 10.1% of this outline, about 674 hectares, across 1 named event. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

No named slope-hazard band reaches this outline. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 82% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

The files record 1 parcel of made or characterised ground inside this outline. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The council’s structure register stands 1 asset on this ground, 1 shelter, sited at Le Bons Bay Cemetery. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The recreation register keeps 4 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 2 tennis, 1 cricket, 1 basketball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 41 living trees inside this outline, 13 veterans among them, 5 carrying a protection, mostly English Oak, Austrian Pine, Podaocarp. The file remembers 4 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 80% of this outline under Rural Banks Peninsula, the rest mostly Open Space Natural 5%, 84% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, Peace Memorial Library and Setting. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 1% of this outline, about 39 hectares, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s ecological schedules cover 1% of this outline, about 77 hectares across 2 scheduled sites, 1% of it Schedule B, identified on private land but not yet protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 84% of this outline, about 5,616 hectares across 18 scheduled areas, 25% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 13% of it sits inside the coastal environment. 3 main ridgelines run through, the skyline itself is protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 175 classified reaches, the plan calling Le Bons Stream and Hughes Drain by name, 6% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 1 hill density line holds the high ground low. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 5 photographs on this ground, stormwater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 2 inscribed plaques, Le Bons Bay Cemetery, Le Bons Bay Domain among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 6 drawn instruments, 6 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Runanga o Koukourarata and Te Runanga o Onuku. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 1 injury crash

1 crash that hurt somebody on record inside Le Bons Bay's outline, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Le Bons Bay Road at Panama Road, 1 injury crash.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 2 recorded victimisations

2 victimisations on the Police record inside Le Bons Bay’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly burglary, about 1 a year per 1,000 residents. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

Before any of that

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Le Bons Bay, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 August 1857)…christchurch m j burke timaru beechey ghristchurch bilton christchurch carew akaroa cuff le bons bay coxhead christchurch campion timaru joshua cuff akaroa g dunnage purarikanui dorsett christchurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 29 August 1857)…eechey christchurch bilton christchurch a f n blakiston ferry ka carew akaroa 7 koad cuff le bons bay coxhead christehurch campion timaru joshua cuff akaroa g dunnage purarikanui dorsett christehurch…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 10 October 1860)…arket dray ton richmond chandler salford barrett exall andrews reading w williams bedford le bons bay to be sold3o acres bush situated in the above bay adjoining 1 cuff mill for particulars apply to j…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 03 November 1860)…period for which they would be held on terms apply to mr ollivier cashel and high streets le bons bay to be sold3o acres bush situated in the above bay adjoining cuff mill for particulars apply to j a…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
GENERAL SUMMARY. (Timaru Herald, 26 April 1875)…peter fox 55 bs duvauchelle bay lyell akaroa and okatite bay j b parker 60 german bay and le bons bay a 0 condon 30 i waiau and hanmerplaim thomas fraser 70 christchnrch and akaroa via halswell tai ta…Timaru Herald · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
THE P.S. TONGARIRO. (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 13 November 1877)Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 06 April 1882)…ldine 260 acee fenced good house temuka 500 aores banks peninsula 1803 acres pastoral 219 le bons bay 1000 aero aehley 400 aores 2 10s per acre 227-hieds 1880 acres 238 little river 722 acres good hou…Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 11 March 1884)Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 28 March 1884)Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 24 December 1887)Star · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The wire on Le Bons Bay 4 lately

Giant Scale Insects seen — Le Bons Bay 7583, New ZealandiNaturalist · nichwildlife ·
Dicranales seen — Le Bons Bay 7583, New ZealandiNaturalist · liadan_dickie ·
Pertusaria seen — Le Bons Bay 7583, New ZealandiNaturalist · liadan_dickie ·
Leopard Seal seen — South Island, Le Bons Bay, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · matt903 ·

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Questions, answered briefly

What is Le Bons Bay?

A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, the public record holds 41 council reports for it, the first filed in November 2017.

How many people does the 2023 Census count for Le Bons Bay?

About 651 people and 276 occupied private households (wider SA2 stand-in): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.

What gets reported in Le Bons Bay?

41 reports on record, most often trees & parks (17), water & drains (7), roads & footpaths (6). 8 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.

How many crashes has Le Bons Bay had?

1 injury crash on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →

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