17RR Whitewash Head Road
3 council reports since May 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Whitewash Head Road, 12 reports on file.
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
- Whitewash Reserve, you are in it · Regional · 9 ha
- Nicholson Park, 45 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Scarborough Beach, 255 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Scarborough Park, 462 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Boating & Fishing Club, 282 m away · Association
- Slipway Office - Sumner Boating & Fishing Club, 284 m away · Harbour Master
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
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
- We Remember Jim and Marjorie 1912–1996, 197 m away ·
WE REMEMBER JIM and MARJORIE 1912–1996 / 1915–2007 WHO LOVED THIS VIEW The Curtis Family
· 2009 - To the Memory of / Gilbert W. Lewis / 1921 - 1995, 206 m away ·
TO THE MEMORY OF / GILBERT W. LEWIS / 1921 - 1995 / 'I must go down to the sea again'
· 2000 - Remembering Steven Sergio Searle 1948 – 2004 Time, 209 m away ·
Remembering STEVEN SERGIO SEARLE 1948 – 2004 Time for a quiet one…
· 2009
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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - Damaged, 12 Mar 2025 Further to previous report on public footpath off Whitewash Head Rd... The concrete is smooth and does not have a swept finish as normally r
Pavement - Damaged, 12 Mar 2025 Last Friday local resident Hannah fell and broke her ankle here. She is still in hospital awaiting complex surgery. Last year I also fell
Roads - General, 12 May 2024 This path from middle to upper Whitewash Head Road appears to be a public access path, yet it has no signs at either end. Pkwase could signs
Elsewhere on Whitewash Head Road
- 1 Whitewash Head Road, 12 reports
- 18 Whitewash Head Road, 5 reports
- 8 Whitewash Head Road, 4 reports
- 22 Whitewash Head Road, 3 reports
- 6 Whitewash Head Road, 2 reports
- 36 Whitewash Head Road, 2 reports
- 16 Whitewash Head Road, 2 reports
- 4 Whitewash Head Road, 1 report
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.
Whitewash Head Road, 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
3 council reports on record since May 2024, most often pavement - damaged (2), roads - general (1).
Scarborough, Christchurch, on Whitewash Head Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Whitewash Reserve, the address is inside it, 9 ha.


