175 Purau Avenue
1 council report since March 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 50 Purau Avenue, 5 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
- Purau Maori Reserve, 59 m to the edge
- Purau Foreshore, 62 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Purau Recreation Ground, 85 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Purau Esplanade Reserve, 130 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 named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Animal - Deceased, 24 Mar 2025 Large dead seal - possibly a leopard seal - Diamond Harbour end of Purau Beach - likely to get very smelly soon!
Elsewhere on Purau Avenue
- 50 Purau Avenue, 5 reports
- 193 Purau Avenue, 2 reports
The civic layer
This ground votes in Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula 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.
Purau Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Purau → · 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 March 2025, most often animal - deceased (1).
Purau, Christchurch, on Purau Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Purau Maori Reserve, 59 m to its edge.