22 Bowhill Road
8 council reports since January 2017, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 160 Bowhill Road, 67 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
- Thomson Park, 32 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 58 pieces
- North Beach, 51 m to the edge · Regional · 18 ha
- Rawhiti Domain, 87 m to the edge · Sports ground · 61 ha · playground, 92 pieces
- Sea Eagles Reserve, 414 m to the edge · playground, 35 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 Beer Garden, 47 m away · Bars & pubs
- North New Brighton Community Centre, 68 m away · Venues & events
- North Beach Fish Supply, 145 m away · Fast food
- North Beach Coffee Shed, 155 m away · Cafés
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.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 409 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 409 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 432 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Erected / to the Memory of / E.A.M. Leaver, 80 m away ·
ERECTED / TO THE MEMORY OF / E.A.M. LEAVER J.P. / BY THE NORTH BEACH / PROGRESS LEAGUE & F
· 2000
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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 7 on record
What’s on record
Roads - General, 9 Feb 2026 Speeding issues on Bowhill Road, New Brighton. Cars often travelling 70kms plus, especially at night. The street has been attracting boy rac
Dumped Rubbish, 20 Jul 2025- Graffiti, 26 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 4 Aug 2022 On old blue hotel site cnr bowhill and Marine parade
Graffiti, 12 Nov 2018
Roading/Streets, 15 Sept 2017
Exposed wiring on boarder of empty section. Presume it's not powered - but who knows?!?
Roading/Streets, 22 Jan 2017
Dangerous fencing spilling out onto public path!!!!!
Roading/Streets, 22 Jan 2017
Hole made in building on empty property so people, dogs, whoever can get inside. There was wire fencing around whole section but all corrode
Elsewhere on Bowhill Road
- 160 Bowhill Road, 67 reports
- 169 Bowhill Road, 62 reports
- 11 Bowhill Road, 41 reports
- 33 Bowhill Road, 34 reports
- 48 Bowhill Road, 32 reports
- 7 Bowhill Road, 22 reports
- 39 Bowhill Road, 18 reports
- 2 Bowhill Road, 18 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bowhill Road in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 3 seriously hurt.
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.
Bowhill Road, 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
8 council reports on record since January 2017, most often roading/streets (3), graffiti (3), roads - general (1).
New Brighton, Christchurch, on Bowhill Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Thomson Park, 32 m to its edge, 2 ha.


