Moncks Bay, Christchurch

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

The ground: 5% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the February 2011 survey drew liquefaction over 0% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 park, 1 track and 4 bus stops, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 50 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 5 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 5 September 2024, 5 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Moncks Bay is a south-eastern suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.

As reported 319 on record

319 photographs
on the wall →

The suburb, back then 5 in the archive

5 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 shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

5 Oct 2026 Graffiti on a playground or in a park10 Wakatu Avenue

inside toilet

2 Oct 2026 Water Leak56 Bay View Rd

Water leaking

31 Aug 2026 Pavement - General167 Main Road

This low chain is a trip hazard on the path out to the sea scouts jetty. Particularly in the evenings. It serves no purpose.

28 Jul 2026 Animal - General58 Bay View Rd

These dog park gate at the end of the street is not closing properly and someone has used a dog lead to keep it closed, which is not ideal

27 Jul 2026 Damaged Road1 Cliff St

Hi. Just wondering if this recent road repair in Cliff St is finished? It is crumbling and going down the drain to the estuary

24 Jun 2026 Water Leak3 Bay View Road

leaking water meter

18 Jun 2026 General Request24 Wakatu Avenue

continuous heavy smoke from this chimney all day yesterday, 17/6/26

16 Jun 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water69 Bay View Rd

Leaves blocking drain

10 Jun 2026 Graffiti on a fence, building or structure200B Main Road

utility cabinet likely Orion inside Barnett Park Redcliffs.

10 Jun 2026 Street Gutters / Storm Water8 Red Rock Ln

Blocked open storm water drain between 5 & 8 Red Rock Lane, this is normally cleared by CCC as this takes water off several properties up the lane.

9 Jun 2026 Park - General Request58 Bay View Rd

This gate spring is dangerous. The spring is far too strong. I understand that it’s stung for dogs but the tension is so strong is dangerous for children. When…

3 Jun 2026 Street Light Outage167 Main Road

light not working on shared walkway at a critical blind corner by the bus shelter.

How fast the council fixes things here 755 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in Moncks Bay took 5 days 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. 25 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 3 October 2022.

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.

Schools here

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Te Aratai College · and 2 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 1

• Yacht Club Reserve

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 tracks through here 1

• Walk and bike track through Moncks Bay4.0 km · Christchurch · walk · bike

Tracks in the council’s open data, a line belongs to every suburb it passes through. The whole network is at /tracks.

The names on this ground 1

The February 2011 survey drew mapped ground failure over 0.3% of this outline. A patch is a footprint, not a finding about an address; the count for the whole city is at /liquefaction.

The Crown’s 2011 classification drew 5.3% of this outline inside the residential red zone. A mapped area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a classification is the record of a decision, not a finding about an address; the whole line is drawn at /redzone.

The 2011 grading filed 38.9% of this outline, about 15 hectares, mostly TC2. A graded area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a category is a verdict for a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the grades are drawn at /technical-categories.

The flood record drew water over 40.1% of this outline, about 15 hectares, across 2 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.

The mapped tsunami extent covers 45% of this outline, about 17 hectares. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.

The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 7% of this outline, rockfall management area 2, rockfall management area 1, cliff collapse management area 2. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 47% 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 9 parcels of made or characterised ground inside this outline, mostly loess, compacted hardfill. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The rockfall survey mapped 30 rocks inside this outline across 23 survey pins, 13 came down, 13 still wobble easy. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.

The 2019 liquefaction study put 51% of this outline in the "unlikely" class, and 1 assessed area here carry the free-face flag for possible lateral spreading. A class is the model’s verdict on a patch of ground, not a finding about an address; the whole study is drawn at /vulnerability.

The council’s structure register stands 13 assets on this ground, 4 ramps, 4 sets of steps, 2 boat ramps, 2 viewing platforms, sited at Yacht Club Reserve, Barnett Park Conservation, Cave Tce And Shag Rock, Barnett Park Sports Grounds. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 63 living trees inside this outline, 4 carrying a protection, mostly Pohutukawa, Paper Birch, Silver Birch. The file remembers 35 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 50% of this outline under Residential Hills, 83% residential, the rest mostly Residential Suburban 33%, Transport 9%. 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 exceptions touch 2% of this outline, 7 qualifying matters, mostly section 6. A matter narrows how the density rule applies, it does not forbid; the mix is read from a sampled join, and the cultural-significance areas are the plan’s own unnamed ones. The whole register is drawn at /matters.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 1 place by name in this suburb, Redcliffs Tram/Bus Shelter, Wall 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 100% of this outline, about 38 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 4% of this outline across 3 scheduled areas, 4% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 49% of it sits inside the coastal environment. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s flood map draws 11% of this outline inside high flood hazard ground across 8 mapped areas. The broader flood-management watch covers 34% of it, Moncks Redcliffs. Shares read from a sampled join; a model’s map, not a promise. The waiting water is drawn at /flood-hazard.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 25 classified reaches, the plan calling Rifle Range Waterway and Pump Station 222 Drain by name, 8% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. 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 rebuild’s cameras filed 443 photographs on this ground, 2010–2016, 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 pedal network threads this ground, 6.6 km of cycleway crosses the outline, Te Ara Ihutai Coastal Pathway. A segment counts under every suburb its path enters; the whole network is drawn at /cycleways.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 5 inscribed plaques, Avon And Heathcote Estuary, Yacht Club Reserve, Monks Bay Gun Emplacement 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, 3 drawn instruments, 3 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 3 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.3 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

• A Day at the Beachartwork · Oli Aikawa

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 7 injury crashes

7 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Moncks Bay's outline, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Main Road at Cliff Street, 2 injury crashes.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 25 recorded victimisations

25 victimisations on the Police record inside Moncks Bay’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 3 a year per 1,000 residents. Up 17% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

The buses through it 4 stops

4 Metro stops inside Moncks Bay's outline, in ECan’s stop record, served by route 3.

• Main Rd near Cliff St
• Main Rd near Moncks Bay Ln
• Main Rd near Wakatu Ave near Main Rd
• Main Rd near Wakatu Ave near Main Rd

Every route in the record →

On the register here

1. Redcliffs Tram/Bus Shelter, Wall and Setting

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about Moncks 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.

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

The wire on Moncks Bay 5 lately

The whole wire →

Next door

Compare Moncks Bay with Clifton · Redcliffs · Richmond Hill · Sumner · Mount Pleasant · Southshore, same record, side by side.

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