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Sumner Beach

Regional · 8 ha

From the air

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

Where it sits

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

More green in Clifton

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

No playground is on the register here, the asset layers name none for this ground.

Also on the register: 8 seats (4 seats and 4 benches), 1 picnic table, 3 outdoor showers and 3 drinking fountains (bottle filler and dog bowl).

The register’s commission dates run 1998 to 2013.

The register’s site tag names this park, and its pins stand 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 reports on this ground

167 reports pinned inside the park's drawn outline, most often Trees & parks and Graffiti & vandalism, 130 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 Sumner Beach?

8 hectares by the layer’s own polygon.

Where is Sumner Beach?

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

What kind of place is Sumner Beach?

Regional.

Where does this record come from?

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