246 Bower Avenue

From the air, then

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The green nearby

• Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 48 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
• Endeavour Playground, 470 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, 276 m away · Fast food
• The Bottle O QEII, 289 m away · Bottle stores
• Saawaan Thai & Takeaway, 291 m away · Restaurants
• Chats Bar & Cafe, 292 m away · Bars & pubs

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 31 m away · route 80
• Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 54 m away · route 80, route 135

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

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

• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6
• Graffiti, 3
• Dumped Rubbish, 2
• Water Supply, 1
• Vandalism - General, 1

Photographed here 10 on record

more photographs
on the North New Brighton wall →

What’s on record

• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Aug 2025 Across from exit of Dick Taylor Drive
• Dumped Rubbish, 16 Oct 2024 Run down abandoned building attracting rubbish dumping and graphitti What is the status of this building? A stain on the local community to
• Dumped Rubbish, 11 Oct 2024 A stain on the local community this building. It promotes constant graphitti in the area and rubbish dumping on site for homeowners to look
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 Lots of graffiti and vandalism on a church
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 Please clean up the graffiti or demo the building for something new. Thank you
• Vandalism - General, 6 Jun 2024 All over back and front of building
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 It was vandalised
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 Old church with lots of graffiti, hazards and boarded up windows
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jun 2024 Lots of graffiti on run down church
• Graffiti, 11 Nov 2023
• Graffiti, 1 Jun 2023
• Graffiti, 31 Mar 2021 Painted out by PEEEP Trust 31-3-2021 Opposite 19 Marriott's Road (no ref number)
• Water Supply, 10 Sept 2016 Water main pipe leakage opposite 19 Marriotts Road. North Beach. Christchurch. Drain is by Samoan Church telephone pole. Been like this for

Elsewhere on Bower Avenue

• 251 Bower Avenue, 16 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
• 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 crashes it names, each one →

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.