8 Palmers Road
1 council report since July 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 32 Palmers Road, 42 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, 215 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Bower Park, 458 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
- Holman Motor Group, 131 m away · Car dealers
- BP, 136 m away · Petrol stations
- Wild Bean Cafe - BP QEII, 138 m away · Cafés
- BP Connect, 156 m away · Dairies & convenience
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 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 1 on record
What’s on record
Road Blockage, 6 Jul 2025 Resident requested yellow lines outside her back gate. Understands it isn’t an entry way, but gets blocked in quite a lot.
Elsewhere on Palmers Road
- 32 Palmers Road, 42 reports
- 193 Palmers Road, 29 reports
- 43 Palmers Road, 20 reports
- 191 Palmers Road, 15 reports
- 90 Palmers Road, 10 reports
- 74 Palmers Road, 9 reports
- 60 Palmers Road, 8 reports
- 42 Palmers Road, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Palmers Road in 4 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.
Palmers 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
1 council report on record since July 2025, most often road blockage (1).
New Brighton, Christchurch, on Palmers Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 215 m to its edge, 49 ha.