251 Bower Avenue
16 council reports since June 2023, 8 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Bower Avenue.
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, you are in it · 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
- Taiora QEII Recreation and Sports Centre, 184 m away · Sports centres
- Taiora QEII Recreation & Sport Centre, 223 m away · Attractions
- Cafe Red - Taiora QEII Recreation & Sport Centre, 279 m away · Cafés
- Monthai Takeaway, 324 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 89 m away · route 80, route 135
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 111 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, 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 8 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 26 Dec 2025
Park - General Request, 25 Feb 2025 Pile of gravel need to be removed and wire fence to be fixed. Remove sign stand and cone.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 18 Jul 2024
Litter, 6 Jun 2024 We could use a bin here
Litter, 6 Jun 2024 Put a bin here now
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 May 2024 Graffiti on the Dick Drive gate
Vandalism - General, 23 Apr 2024 Broken glass pane at bus shelter inside Avonside Girls
Graffiti, 8 Jan 2024 Brown container
- Fallen Tree, 24 Nov 2023
- Litter, 1 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Jun 2023
- Litter, 1 Jun 2023
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 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
- 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
16 council reports on record since June 2023, most often dumped rubbish (6), litter (4), vandalism - 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, the address is inside it, 49 ha.