193 Purau Avenue
2 council reports since September 2022, 2 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 Foreshore, 13 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Purau Recreation Ground, 63 m to the edge · playground, 3 pieces
- Purau Maori Reserve, 133 m to the edge
- Purau Esplanade Reserve, 146 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
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 14 Nov 2025 These people driving on purau beach
General Request, 7 Sept 2022 Yes an category titled “Inundation” is now needed! Changing times !
Elsewhere on Purau Avenue
- 50 Purau Avenue, 5 reports
- 175 Purau Avenue, 1 report
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
2 council reports on record since September 2022, most often hazard, vehicle (1), general request (1).
Purau, Christchurch, on Purau Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Purau Foreshore, 13 m to its edge, 1 ha.

