182 Bower Avenue
3 council reports since November 2016, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 2 Bower Avenue, 16 reports on file.
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
- Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 252 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Bower Park, 407 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 9 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- North Beach Tennis Club, 161 m away · Sports centres
- BP, 181 m away · Petrol stations
- Holman Motor Group, 181 m away · Car dealers
- Wild Bean Cafe - BP QEII, 186 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Castletown Pl, 65 m away · route 80
- Bower Ave near Castletown Pl, 65 m away · route 80
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in New Brighton ran about $520 a week, $30 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water General, 24 Mar 2026 Water meter has no handle hard to turn off without tools
Abandoned Vehicle, 29 Dec 2023 Abandoned car on Bower Ave. Its been there for a number of months now. It has no registration plates but the registration is still visible i
Graffiti, 2 Nov 2016
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 2 Bower Avenue, 16 reports
- 6 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 204 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 112 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 154 Bower Avenue, 6 reports
- 10 Bower Avenue, 6 reports
- 67A Bower Avenue, 5 reports
- 55 Bower Avenue, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bower Avenue in 36 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Coastal ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.
Bower Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about New Brighton → · 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
3 council reports on record since November 2016, most often water general (1), graffiti (1), abandoned vehicle (1).
New Brighton, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 252 m to its edge, 49 ha.

