Street Gutters / Storm WaterChorlton Road
Hello Team Just wondering if you could clean out a 30m section of table drain to reduce stagnant water. On this section of the road. Cheers
Okains Bay, Christchurch
92 council reports since February 2017, the 99th busiest suburb in the city. 67 photographs on record. 570 people at the 2023 Census, 5 to the square kilometre across 122 km².
The record also holds 2023 Census snapshot· 67 photographs· 21 old photographs· 1 school· 6 parks· 4 civic facilities· 2 places of worship· 20 names on the map· the record drew water over 3% of the outline· inside the broad slope-instability overlay· the Ngāi Tahu schedule covers 14% of the outline· ecological sites over 2% of the outline· landscape schedules over 80% of the outline· setback strips over 3% of the outline· 7 SCIRT photographs filed on this ground· 10 drawn rules bind this ground· 1 parcels of made ground· 9 council structures on the register· 3 recreation register records· 93 trees on the register· the plan’s word on this ground· 10 places on the heritage schedule· 1 epicentre inside the outline· 8 injury crashes· 12 recorded victimisations· 8 businesses· the council’s fix times· 40 documents· 4 mentions on the wire
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Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day
The ground: the flood record drew water over 3% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.
Day to day it holds 1 school, 6 parks, 4 civic facilities and 2 places of worship, each is counted further down.
Lately the record’s mostly roads & footpaths, 32 reports in the year to 12 October 2026, the newest 4 September 2026.
One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 3 August 2023, 5 reports in a single day.
2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here
About 651 people and 276 occupied private households in the “Banks Peninsula Eastern Bays” and “Diamond Harbour” areas, grouped from 6 SA1 areas. A wider statistical area stands in for this suburb, so this is a proxy rather than a count for the suburb boundary.
More of the 2023 Census
- Born overseas19% of stated birthplace
- European ethnicity93% of ethnicity responses
Ethnicity is a multiple-response measure, so those percentages are not meant to add to 100%.
Stats NZ’s 2023 Census uses fixed random rounding to base 3. Unavailable or confidential cells are left out, not treated as zero. individuals · households · geography · CC BY 4.0.
About the suburb
Okains Bay is a settlement, beach and bay on the Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand.
As reported 67 on record
The suburb, back then 21 in the archive
Placed by the record’s locality join or the name in its own title, a lead, not a claim each frame stood here.
The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned
The record on Okains Bay
- Okains Bay enters the written record on 1 January 1860, “Belvedere, Okains Bay reverse”, Canterbury Stories.
- “Okains Bay” appears somewhere in 107 of the archive’s records, title, description or body.
- A Papers Past search for the name surfaced 30 records, leads by provenance, not by phrase.
- The first report the feed ever carried here: wastewater/stormwater, 7 February 2017, at 578.
- Its busiest day on record was 3 August 2023, 5 reports in a single day.
- The street that keeps coming up is Okains Bay Road, reported on 27 separate days.
- For elections the suburb’s centre falls inside Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula community board is its local layer. The whole roll is at /wards.
Lately the newest reports
Animal - GeneralChorlton Road
Gidday Team A set net with no identity tags on has been set on the Okains Bay Bridge, can you please check legal requirements of this style of fishing as many…
Road SignageSummit Road
Sorry Team This Chevron board is found about 5 m away but the sign fix rail is shot so you will need a new chevron board. Thanks ??
Road Signage166 Little Akaloa Road, Okains Bay
Good Afternoon Team I have just spun these chevron boards around the correct way but can you please arrange for an awesome maintenance team to install a…
Pavement - General345 Okains Bay Rd
This pole (? Telephone line) is on the road side and leaning very precariously over the road. With the rain this week the situation has become on a greater…
Abandoned Vehicle1163 Okains Bay Rd
This car has been on the side of the road for the last 12 weeks and the owner refuses to move it. We need this car space because the school gets really busy…
Damaged Road1315 Chorlton Road
major damage to road deteriorating quickly. Council have liability for up keep of road. Extreme safety risk as vehicles and pedestrians use road
Reports per year down 33% 2024→2025
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What gets reported
Exactly what people say
How fast the council fixes things here 251 finished jobs on record
The median council work order pinned in Okains Bay took 4 weeks to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 7 months or longer. 12 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 29 July 2020.
Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
Alcohol rules on this ground
One sensitive site stands here, Okains Bay School, and the Local Alcohol Policy restricts new off-licences within 50 m of it.
The council’s bylaw zones and the Local Alcohol Policy’s buffer list, read from the Regulatory open-data service. A ban rules drinking in public places; it says nothing about whether a premises may sell, that is the licence register’s job.
The suburb today
Schools here 1
Okains Bay SchoolFull Primary · decile 4 · EQI 545
Zoned for Aidanfield Christian School · Christchurch Adventist School · Duvauchelle School · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Villa Maria College, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.
Decile and EQI describe the community a school draws from, not how well it teaches.
The green here 6
- Okains Bay Reserve1 ha
- Little Akaloa Domainplayground, 1 pieces
- Okains Bay Esplanade Reserve
- Lukes Reserve
- Okains Bay War Memorial
- Little Akaloa Streamside Reserve
Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf 4
- Little Akaloa CemeteryCemetery
- Okains Bay CemeteryCemetery
- Little Akaloa Collection PointTransfer station · Transfer Station / Recycling Centre
- Okains Bay Collection PointTransfer station · Transfer Station / Recycling Centre
Libraries, halls, cemeteries and the rest in the council’s open data, a facility lands in the suburb its point or centre falls inside. The whole shelf is at /facilities.
Where the suburb worships 2
- Saint John the Evangelistan Anglican church · 1131 Okains Bay Road
- St Luke's Anglican Church - Little Akaloaan Anglican church · 1280 Chorlton Road
Places of worship in the open map’s record, one lands in the suburb its building stands in. The whole roll is at /worship.
The names on this ground 20
The flood record drew water over 2.9% of this outline, about 356 hectares, across 2 named events. A patch is one event’s observation, not a live hazard finding; the whole record is drawn at /floods.
No named slope-hazard band reaches this outline. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 78% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.
The files record 1 parcel of made or characterised ground inside this outline. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.
The council’s structure register stands 9 assets on this ground, 5 sets of steps, 2 jetties, 1 boat ramp, 1 shelter, sited at Okains Bay Camping Ground, Little Akaloa Bay Central. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.
The recreation register keeps 3 records inside this outline, bookable surfaces for 2 tennis, 1 basketball. Seasons and surfaces are the register’s record, not this week’s draw; the layer is drawn at the map.
The register counts 93 living trees inside this outline, 58 veterans among them, mostly English Oak, Wild Cherry, Ash. The file remembers 29 trees felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.
The plan files 78% of this outline under Rural Banks Peninsula, the rest mostly Transport 1%, 80% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.
The plan’s heritage schedule protects 10 places by name in this suburb, 5 graded highly significant, Dwelling and Setting, Rowandale, Former Seed Store and Setting, St John the Evangelist Church and Setting among them. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.
The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 14% of this outline, about 1,672 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.
The plan’s ecological schedules cover 2% of this outline, about 257 hectares across 3 scheduled sites, 2% of it Schedule B, identified on private land but not yet protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a survey. The whole ledger is drawn at /ecology.
The plan’s landscape schedules cover 80% of this outline, about 9,712 hectares across 22 scheduled areas, 8% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 10% of it sits inside the coastal environment. 3 main ridgelines run through, the skyline itself is protected. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.
The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 385 classified reaches, the plan calling Opara Stream and Little Akaloa Stream by name, 3% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 10 m off the bank. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.
The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 3 hill density lines hold the high ground low. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.
The rebuild’s cameras filed 7 photographs on this ground, roading work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.
The rulebook binds this ground, 10 drawn instruments, 8 of them dog rules, 1 alcohol ban, 1 bottle-store buffer; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Runanga o Koukourarata and Te Runanga o Onuku. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.7 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.
- Decanter Baybay
- Kawatea / Okains Baybay · Kawatea
- Little Akaloa Bay / Whakaroabay · Whakaroa
- North West Baybay
- Okains Baybeach
- Okains Bay Cemeterycemetery
- East Headheadland
- Otohuao Headheadland · Otohuao
- Panau / Long Lookout Pointheadland · Panau
- Spyglass Pointheadland
- West Headheadland
- Okains Bayold dump · ?–1995
- Graemesummit · 446 m
- View Hillsummit
- West Peaksummit
The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.
The crash record 8 injury crashes
8 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside Okains Bay's outline, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner that keeps appearing: Okains Bay Road at Summit Road, 3 injury crashes.
The crime record 12 recorded victimisations
12 victimisations on the Police record inside Okains Bay’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly burglary, about 5 a year per 1,000 residents. Down 50% on the year before. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.
Businesses here 8 in the directory
8 premises in Okains Bay across 5 kinds, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.
Among them, the ones the record says most about:
Before any of that
Documents 40
What the archive’s sources say about Okains Bay, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.
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Belvedere, Okains Bay reverse
Reverse of the Belvedere, Okains Bay photograph. Okains Bay Museum collection…Okains Bay Museum collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
Belvedere, Okains Bay
View of the Belvedere homestead and the shed, both located in Okains Bay and owned by Thomas Ware. Okains Bay Museum collection…Okains Bay Museum collection · Canterbury Stories · Christchurch City Libraries ·
DIED. (Lyttelton Times, 12 September 1860)
…tation aged 16 years sept 8 in canterbury street mrs foster mother of mr joseph foster of okains bay aged 60 years sept 8 the infant son of mr dennian of london street sept 11 at his residence ellesme…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 05 January 1861)
…hurch december 27th 1860 orders for any description of timber addressed to john e thacker okains bay will be punctually supplied st andrew church on sabbath next the sth instant a special collection w…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 13 April 1861)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 17 April 1861)Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
BIRTHS. (Lyttelton Times, 06 July 1861)
…daughter neevefeb 6 at colombo street christchurch mrs w neeve of a son torlessefeb 7 at okains bay the wife of the rev h torlesse of a daughter clarksonfeb 11 at lyttelton the wife of mr thomas n cl…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
DEATHS. (Lyttelton Times, 06 July 1861)
…deaesleymarch 11 at papanui william youngest son of mr william dearsley genetmarch 27 at okains bay henry anthony genet third son of mr edward genet lyttelton drowned by the upsetting of a boat hllla…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 09 November 1861)
…ll adapted for parties in all weathers notice to the inhabitants of pigeon bay akaroa and okains bay lv-si moses barton with an experienced man are running a boat from the head of pigeon bay three tim…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 17 May 1862)
…henderson william akaroa freehold no freehold as described on electoral roll nash joseph okains bay householder house on public road tuson arthur bailey okains bay householder no householder as descr…Lyttelton Times · Papers Past · National Library of New Zealand · · text held
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The wire on Okains Bay 4 lately
Something seen — Okains Bay Rd, Okains Bay, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · sedgehoe ·
Dwarf mistletoe seen — South Island, Okains Bay, Canterbury, NZiNaturalist · katrinamccallum ·
Osteospermum moniliferum seen — OKains Bay, Banks PeninsulaiNaturalist · alice_shanks ·
Something seen — Okains Bay 7583, New ZealandiNaturalist · joearts ·
Next door
Compare Okains Bay with Le Bons Bay · Duvauchelle · Pigeon Bay · Akaroa · Wainui · Port Levy, same record, side by side.
Questions, answered briefly
What is Okains Bay?
Okains Bay is a settlement, beach and bay on the Banks Peninsula in the South Island of New Zealand. The public record holds 92 council reports for it, the first filed in February 2017.
How many people live in Okains Bay?
570 people at the 2023 Census, 5 per square kilometre across 122 km².
How many people does the 2023 Census count for Okains Bay?
About 651 people and 276 occupied private households (wider SA2 stand-in): grouped from Stats NZ SA1 areas through this site’s suburb join. Indicative, not a LIM.
What gets reported in Okains Bay?
92 reports on record, most often roads & footpaths (40), trees & parks (22), water & drains (10). 32 of them in the year to 12 October 2026.
How many crashes has Okains Bay had?
8 injury crashes on the police record inside the suburb’s outline, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed. The suburb’s crashes, mapped →
Did earthquakes strike under Okains Bay?
GeoNet’s catalogue puts 1 magnitude-3+ epicentre inside the suburb’s mapped outline since the September 2010 mainshock, the biggest a M3.7 in 2010. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking felt here. The whole sequence, counted → · The story, in plain language →
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