285 Bower Avenue
4 council reports since November 2019, 3 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, 102 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
- Endeavour Playground, 458 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
- Taiora QEII Recreation and Sports Centre, 270 m away · Sports centres
- Christchurch Disc Golf, 335 m away · Attractions
- Taiora QEII Recreation & Sport Centre, 373 m away · Attractions
- Cafe Red - Taiora QEII Recreation & Sport Centre, 394 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 133 m away · route 80, route 135
- Bower Ave near Dick Taylor Dr, 166 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 3 on record
What’s on record
- Overgrown Vegetation, 16 Nov 2022
Trees - General, 28 Aug 2022 Gorse bush on footpath outside empty land on bower ave
Graffiti, 5 Jun 2020Graffiti, 17 Nov 2019
Power box outside 262 bower avenue
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
- 216 Bower Avenue, 7 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
4 council reports on record since November 2019, most often graffiti (2), trees - general (1), overgrown vegetation (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, 102 m to its edge, 49 ha.

