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New Brighton Beach Developed

Regional · 2 ha

From the air

aerial view of New Brighton Beach Developed and the ground around it
From the air, LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0

Where it sits

Its centre falls inside New Brighton, suburb membership is a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.

The camping bylaw names this ground, New Brighton Prohibited Area: no camping. The zone drawings sit at /rules.

More green in New Brighton

The register on this ground

Heritage-register places whose pin falls inside the park's drawn outline, what stood here, or still does.

What’s built on this ground

A playground stands here, the register counts 48 pieces of play equipment (13 water plays, 4 ladders, 4 sound plays, 3 climbing-walls, 3 climbing-nets, 3 swings, 2 cube/bead sets, 2 panels and 2 other kinds) plus 1 modular unit on a marked playground ground, the highest rated fall 6 m.

Also on the register: 47 seats (39 benches and 8 seats), 4 picnic tables, 4 outdoor showers, 6 drinking fountains (bottle filler and dog bowl) and 1 piece of sports gear (1 basketball hoop).

The register’s commission dates run 2000 to 2024.

The register flags 2 items out of service.

The register’s site tag names this park, and its pins stand inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.

The register’s photograph of the equipmentThe register’s photograph of the equipmentThe register’s photograph of the equipmentThe register’s photograph of the equipment

Sport and dogs on this ground

The recreation register marks 1 playing surface on this ground, Basketball, graded recreational on asphalt.

The register books it by name, Basketball Half Court.

The register names this park, and its record centroids sit inside the drawn outline, two views of the same ground.

The monuments on this ground

Memorial and artwork pins that stand inside the park's drawn outline, where the register put them, not a claim about the ground's story.

The plaques on this ground

Inscribed plaques whose pin stands inside the park's drawn outline, the remembered names the register keeps here.

The civic shelf inside

Libraries, toilets, courts and the rest whose point falls inside the park’s drawn outline, the ground in use, the way a register pin is the ground remembered.

The reports on this ground

1,539 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 1,279 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the whole park.

Environment Canterbury / Canterbury Maps, Parks layer · refreshed 10 October 2026.

What stood on this ground before → · On the map →

Questions, answered briefly

How big is New Brighton Beach Developed?

2 hectares by the layer’s own polygon.

Where is New Brighton Beach Developed?

Its centre falls inside New Brighton, a centroid call, not a claim the whole park lies inside the outline.

What kind of place is New Brighton Beach Developed?

Regional.

Where does this record come from?

Environment Canterbury’s open Parks layer, kind, size and suburb read straight from it.