399 Bower Avenue
6 council reports since August 2021, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 601 Bower Avenue, 156 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
- Arden Reserve, 391 m to the edge · playground, 19 pieces
- Queen Elizabeth Ii Park, 446 m to the edge · Sports ground · 49 ha · playground, 2 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- The naked baker, 80 m away · Bakeries
- Cheeky Kea Tours, 123 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Beach Rd near Bower Ave, 113 m away · route 80, route 135
- Beach Rd near Bower Ave, 115 m away · route 80, route 135
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 Parklands ran about $579 a week, $29 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 31 Aug 2025
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 22 Jun 2024
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 14 Jun 2024- Graffiti, 8 Sept 2023
Graffiti, 23 May 2022
Graffiti, 12 Aug 2021
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 601 Bower Avenue, 156 reports
- 574 Bower Avenue, 28 reports
- 552 Bower Avenue, 13 reports
- 459 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 401 Bower Avenue, 7 reports
- 562A Bower Avenue, 4 reports
- 554 Bower Avenue, 4 reports
- 454 Bower Avenue, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Bower Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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 Parklands → · 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
6 council reports on record since August 2021, most often graffiti (3), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
Parklands, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Arden Reserve, 391 m to its edge.




