526 Bower Avenue
1 council report since October 2026, 1 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, 139 m to the edge · playground, 4 pieces
- Lamorna Reserve, 183 m to the edge
- Bower Avenue Landscape Reserve, 233 m to the edge
- Broadhaven Reserve, 266 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Arthur Adcock Memorial Reserve, 267 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Parklands Bowling Club, 365 m away · Clubs
- Waimairi Beach Golf Club, 391 m away · Golf courses
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
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, 230 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
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Abandoned Vehicle, 8 Oct 2026 car has no registration , no current Wof, been in that parked position for over a year
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
1 council report on record since October 2026, most often abandoned vehicle (1).
Parklands, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Crofts Reserve, 139 m to its edge.