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Scarborough Beach Developed plaque

A plaque at Scarborough Beach Developed, standing in Sumner. The surveyor filed a note, not words: “illegible – bench plaque too distant”.

The ground
Scarborough Beach Developed
The suburb
Sumner
The year
2013, the register’s commission
Rides on
seat
The register says
in service

The register’s own frame

the register’s photograph of the plaque at Scarborough Beach Developed

The council’s image, opened at its own host, the frame is the record’s, the reading is yours.

Where it stands

The record’s own pin; the strong outline is the suburb around it, the rest are its neighbours.

In the archive

A name read off an inscription is a lead, not a verified identity, the search is where verification starts.

The ground under it

The plans and surveys kept here, asked once of the pin. The whole stack answers live: what stood on this ground →

Around it

The reports nearby

913 council reports pinned within 250 m of the point, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Water & drains, 706 with a photograph. A pin is where a reporter stood, not a claim about the place itself.

Pavement - General 78–90 Esplanade · 30 September 2026
Damaged Street Sign Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, Sumner · 3 September 2026
Trees - General 52 Esplanade · 23 August 2026
Litter 64–76 Esplanade · 22 August 2026
Roads - General 28 Marriner St · 15 August 2026

Questions, answered briefly

What is this?

A plaque of Christchurch, standing at Scarborough Beach Developed in Sumner, one record on the council’s plaque register for the public estate.

What does it say?

The surveyor filed a note, not the words themselves, “illegible – bench plaque too distant”. The plaque still earns its page: it stands, the ground is named, and the record’s pin is real.

Is the plaque still standing?

The register marks it in service, commissioned 2013. The books' word, though, a plaque may have weathered since the survey, and the pin is the record’s position.

The record behind this

Christchurch City Council’s open data, the Furniture service’s Plaque layer. The inscription is the surveyor’s transcription; "In Service" is the books, not a promise the plaque still reads clean today. The pin is the record’s position on the layer.

This page as markdown: /plaque/118684-scarborough-beach-developed.md · the roll: /plaques · the record as data: /plaques.json · on the big map: /map?layer=plaques · the monuments the crowd mapped: /memorial · what stood on this ground before: /before.