23 Howe Street
2 council reports since June 2024, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 15 Howe Street, 4 reports on file.
On the register here
- St Faith's Church and Setting, 50 Hawke Street (150m)
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
- New Brighton Beach Developed, 208 m to the edge · Regional · 2 ha · playground, 34 pieces
- Rawhiti Domain, 238 m to the edge · Sports ground · 61 ha · playground, 92 pieces
- New Brighton Beach, 243 m to the edge · Regional · 10 ha
- New Brighton Mall Playground, 253 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- New Brighton Library, 347 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Waitomo, 91 m away · Petrol stations
- Super Liquor Seaside, 156 m away · Bottle stores
- Super Liquor, 161 m away · Bottle stores
- Karma Free Cafe, 164 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, 156 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 244 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through New Brighton, 270 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
- Jason Reeves – World Champion – ‘crippa’, 233 m away ·
JASON REEVES – WORLD CHAMPION – ‘CRIPPA’
- In Memory of the Love / of the Sea and the Zephyr Wind, 233 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF THE LOVE / OF THE SEA AND THE ZEPHYR WIND / [names list]
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
- Water Leak, 1
- Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Asset – CCC contractor, 24 Sept 2025 Normal #3/23
Water Leak, 27 Jun 2024 Water Toby leaking causing water to pool on footpath hazard. Please remediate
Elsewhere on Howe Street
- 15 Howe Street, 4 reports
- 7 Howe Street, 3 reports
- 32 Howe Street, 2 reports
- 28 Howe Street, 2 reports
- 19 Howe Street, 2 reports
- 11 Howe Street, 2 reports
- 5a Howe Street, 1 report
- 36 Howe Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Howe Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Howe Street, 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
2 council reports on record since June 2024, most often water leak (1), damaged asset – ccc contractor (1).
New Brighton, Christchurch, on Howe Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, St Faith's Church and Setting.
New Brighton Beach Developed, 208 m to its edge, 2 ha.

