490 Bower Avenue
3 council reports since July 2022, 3 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. LINZ, 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
- Crofts Reserve, 71 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Lamorna Reserve, 281 m to the edge
- Arthur Adcock Memorial Reserve, 295 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha
- Eastwood Reserve, 450 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Bower Avenue Landscape Reserve, 489 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Parklands Library, 422 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Clubhouse Cafe at Waimairi Beach Golf Club, 221 m away · Cafés
- Waimairi Beach Golf Club, 221 m away · Golf courses
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bower Ave near Crofts Ln, 202 m away · route 80
- Bower Ave near Crofts Ln, 241 m away · route 80
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.
The remembered names nearby
- Proudly Donated by the de la Mare Family, 93 m away ·
Proudly donated by the De La Mare family/ In loving memory of/ Roger Anthony De La Mare/ 1
· 2025
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
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
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 1
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 26 Feb 2026 Driveway has been damaged by Mainfreight while doing a delivery. Directly off the road.
General Request, 8 Nov 2025 The clothing red bin has been put in by the people who live at this address. This is not for charity it is for their own business . Cars are
Wastewater/Stormwater, 12 Jul 2022 Stormwater drain full of gravel because the road has been resurfaced and unswept
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
- 399 Bower Avenue, 6 reports
- 562A Bower Avenue, 4 reports
- 554 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
3 council reports on record since July 2022, most often wastewater/stormwater (1), pavement - damaged (1), general request (1).
Parklands, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Crofts Reserve, 71 m to its edge.