216 Bower Avenue
7 council reports since December 2016, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 251 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, 74 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Monthai Takeaway, 54 m away · Fast food
- QEII Medical Centre, 70 m away · Doctors & clinics
- Saawaan Thai & Takeaway, 70 m away · Restaurants
- The Bottle O QEII, 70 m away · Bottle stores
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Saltaire St, 26 m away · route 80
- Bower Ave, 41 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 North New Brighton ran about $560 a week, $10 above 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
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 28 Aug 2025 Graffiti on 50kph sign pole
Graffiti, 16 Jul 2022
Graffiti, 16 Jul 2022Roading/Streets, 26 Jan 2019
Broken curb and channeling. Been like this for far too long. Twice last week people have tripped fallen in this dangerously broken edge.
Graffiti, 5 Jan 2019
Graffiti, 14 Dec 2016
Graffiti, 14 Dec 2016
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 251 Bower Avenue, 16 reports
- 246 Bower Avenue, 13 reports
- 252 Bower Avenue, 12 reports
- 244 Bower Avenue, 11 reports
- 223 Bower Avenue, 9 reports
- 283A Bower Avenue, 8 reports
- 238 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 386 Bower Avenue, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bower Avenue in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 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 North 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
7 council reports on record since December 2016, most often graffiti (5), roading/streets (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
North New Brighton, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 74 m to its edge, 49 ha.


