Stoddart Point Reserve

Where it sits

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

The camping bylaw names this ground, Diamond Harbour Restricted Area: two nights in certified self-contained vehicles only. The zone drawings sit at /rules.

More green in Diamond Harbour

• Coastal Cliff Reserve · 18 ha
• Black Point Reserve · 1 ha
• Purau Foreshore · 1 ha
• Laurenson Park
• Jervois Close Park
• Kirk Park
• Rawhiti Street Park
• Purau Esplanade Reserve

The register on this ground

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

• Dwelling and Setting, Stoddart's Cottage, 18 Purau Avenue

What’s built on this ground

A playground stands here, the register counts 6 pieces of play equipment (1 balance-swinging beam, 1 slide, 1 climbing-wall, 1 spring, 1 track glyde and 1 ladders) plus 1 modular unit on a marked playground ground.

Also on the register: 26 seats (18 benches and 8 seats), 10 picnic tables and 1 drinking fountain (bottle filler and dog bowl).

The register’s commission dates run 2008 to 2026.

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

Sport and dogs on this ground

The recreation register marks 2 playing surfaces on this ground, Cricket and Rugby, graded senior on grass, 2 run a winter or summer booking season.

The register books them by name, Senior Cricket 1 and Senior Rugby Union 1.

The summer window runs October to March; the winter window runs April to August; match days land on Saturday; training runs Monday to Friday.

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

The plaques on this ground

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

• Diamond Harbour Cemetery plaque · 2025
• In Appreciation of and With Thanks for / the Life · 2017
• In Loving Memory / Malcolm Peter Walker · 2019
• In Loving Memory / Malcolm Peter Walker · 2019
• In Memory of a Special Lady / Glenys Marilyn Martin · 2012
• Rest a While on John'S Seat and Find Peace · 2008
• Rest Awhile on / Johns Seat / and Find Peace · 1899
• To Honour Ann Thornton’S Vision · 2017
• Tree Planted in Memory · 2008

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.

• Diamond Harbour Library, Library

The reports on this ground

218 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Trees & parks and Water & drains, 168 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the whole park.

• Public Toilet, Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 9 October 2026
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 7 October 2026
• Accessibility, 2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 3 October 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 20B Purau Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 29 September 2026
• Flooding, 2L Waipapa Avenue, Banks Peninsula, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 27 September 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 3 September 2026
• Pothole, 20A Purau Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 19 August 2026
• Park - General Request, 2D Waipapa Ave, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 18 August 2026
• Public Toilet, 2D Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 17 August 2026
• Park - General Request, 2 Waipapa Avenue, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 2 August 2026
• Pavement - General, 2A Waipapa Ave, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 16 July 2026
• Animal - General, Stoddards Rd, Canterbury, Diamond Harbour 8972, New Zealand · 30 June 2026