147 Esplanade
7 council reports since January 2019, 5 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Esplanade.
On the register here
- Sumner Clock Tower and Setting, 147R Esplanade (89m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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
- Scarborough Park, you are in it · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Scarborough Beach, 15 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Nicholson Park, 182 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Whitewash Reserve, 254 m to the edge · Regional · 9 ha
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 306 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 48 m away · Cafés
- Ocean Cafe & Bar, 51 m away · Restaurants
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 157 m away · B&Bs
- Slipway Office - Sumner Boating & Fishing Club, 209 m away · Harbour Master
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Scarborough, 88 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Scarborough Paddling Pool, 20 m away ·
Scarborough Paddling Pool / Rebuilt after being destroyed by the / 2011 earthquakes / Open
- Scarborough Park plaque, 65 m away
- Scarborough Park plaque, 70 m away ·
DEDICATED TO / CHARLES WILLIAM MORGAN / (dates illegible) / Remembered always / (lower lin
· 2013
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 Scarborough ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Water Fountain, 1
- Pavement - General, 1
- Parks, 1
- Park - General Request, 1
- Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 1
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 9 Sept 2025
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 8 Jan 2025 Next to Scarborough paddling pool
Water Fountain, 14 Nov 2024 Swimming toddler pool flooding into street and road.
General Request, 21 Dec 2023 Dead seagulls on Scarborough Beach. Not too sure who deals with this? By steps on beach, near the paddling pool.
- Pavement - General, 18 Sept 2023
- Park - General Request, 18 Jul 2023
Parks, 4 Jan 2019
Security gate between pool and park area facing straight into road way has large gap. Adult can fit through so child can easily run through
Elsewhere on Esplanade
- 147A Esplanade, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Esplanade in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote 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.
Esplanade, the whole record → · Everything about Scarborough → · 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
7 council reports on record since January 2019, most often water fountain (1), pavement - general (1), parks (1).
Scarborough, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Scarborough Park, the address is inside it.