31 Scarborough Road

On the register here

• Sumner Clock Tower and Setting, 147R Esplanade (140m)

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, 60 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
• Scarborough Beach, 71 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
• Nicholson Park, 163 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
• Whitewash Reserve, 277 m to the edge · Regional · 9 ha
• Bernie Hansen Reserve, 305 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, 101 m away · Cafés
• Ocean Cafe & Bar, 103 m away · Restaurants
• C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 203 m away · B&Bs
• Slipway Office - Sumner Boating & Fishing Club, 232 m away · Harbour Master

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Nayland St near Head St, 339 m away · route 3
• Nayland St near Head St, 357 m away · route 3

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Scarborough, 145 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Scarborough Paddling Pool, 67 m away · Scarborough Paddling Pool / Rebuilt after being destroyed by the / 2011 earthquakes / Open
• Scarborough Park plaque, 92 m away · DEDICATED TO / CHARLES WILLIAM MORGAN / (dates illegible) / Remembered always / (lower lin · 2013
• Scarborough Park plaque, 95 m away

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 Leak, 2
• Roads - General, 2
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 1

Photographed here 4 on record

more photographs
on the Scarborough wall →

What’s on record

• Roads - General, 3 Dec 2025 A number broken yellow lines, road markings (no stopping/no parking) opposite #27 require repainting as they are in poor condition and requi
• Water Leak, 22 Sept 2025 This refers to my last report of water leak #6830033 w we hitch did not pick up my photos. Hopefully this time?
• Water Leak, 22 Sept 2025 The leak is at the road end of the driveway for 31-39 Scarborough Rd. This leak has been there since last road repairs/ water problem. It is
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 26 Aug 2025 31 Scarborough road, Sumner, Christchurch 8081 Bin # 528386. Yellow recycle bin. After Monday’s collect my bin was returned with a large s
• Roads - General, 20 Jun 2024 Multiple Broken Yellow Lines been painted over and need re-painting.

Elsewhere on Scarborough Road

• 2 Scarborough Road, 45 reports
• 9 Scarborough Road, 21 reports
• 19 Scarborough Road, 13 reports
• 97 Scarborough Road, 12 reports
• 15A Scarborough Road, 12 reports
• 142 Scarborough Road, 12 reports
• 106 Scarborough Road, 8 reports
• 5 Scarborough Road, 6 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Scarborough Road in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.