244 Bower Avenue
11 council reports since March 2017, 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, 28 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Endeavour Playground, 500 m to the edge · playground, 17 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, 250 m away · Fast food
- The Bottle O QEII, 263 m away · Bottle stores
- Chats Bar & Cafe, 265 m away · Bars & pubs
- Saawaan Thai & Takeaway, 265 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 23 m away · route 80
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 58 m away · route 80, route 135
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
Roads - General, 10 Mar 2025 Non compliant sign, hard to see from a distance
- Graffiti, 24 Mar 2023
- Graffiti, 24 Mar 2023
- Damaged Street Sign, 3 Mar 2023
Dumped Rubbish, 5 Sept 2022 Abandoned Samoan Church between 246 Bower Ave and Marriots Road. Not in use. Damaged in earthquakes. Now being used to dump rubbish. Rats an
Pavement - Damaged, 29 Aug 2022- Street Light Outage, 15 Jun 2021
Neither street lights at intersection of Dick Tayler Drive and Bower Avenue working. The light with the Dick Tayler Drive sign on it, doesnt
Graffiti, 10 Feb 2019
Graffiti, 22 Jul 2018
Graffiti, 19 Mar 2018
Graffiti, 9 Mar 2017
Bus stop foot path
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 251 Bower Avenue, 16 reports
- 246 Bower Avenue, 13 reports
- 252 Bower Avenue, 12 reports
- 223 Bower Avenue, 9 reports
- 283A Bower Avenue, 8 reports
- 238 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 216 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
11 council reports on record since March 2017, most often graffiti (6), street light outage (1), roads - general (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, 28 m to its edge, 49 ha.


