53 Scarborough Road

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

• Bernie Hansen Reserve, 124 m to the edge
• Scarborough Park, 132 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
• Sea Spray Reserve, 136 m to the edge
• Heritage Trail, 151 m to the edge
• Scarborough Beach, 253 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 109 m away · Delis
• Ocean Cafe & Bar, 253 m away · Restaurants
• C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 255 m away · B&Bs
• Scarborough Fare Cafe, 255 m away · Cafés

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

The bus nearby

• Nayland St near Head St, 276 m away · route 3
• Nayland St near Head St, 289 m away · route 3

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

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Scarborough, 272 m to the line · walk · bike

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

The remembered names nearby

• This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos, 190 m away · THIS POHUTUKAWA WAS PLANTED BY / THOS. NEWBURGH / TO MARK THE CORONATION OF / KING GEORGE · 2013
• Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory, 199 m away · Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / In Loving Memory / PETER MARSHALL JONES / Sunrises & Sunsets
• Scarborough Park plaque, 210 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

• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 2
• Pavement - Damaged, 1
• General Request, 1
• Damaged Road, 1

Photographed here 3 on record

more photographs
on the Scarborough wall →

What’s on record

• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 14 Sept 2026 Higgins contractors had 4 traffic control vehicles and a tip truck with a crew cleaning gutters but somehow managed to miss 2 big rocks and
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 7 Apr 2026 leaves and debris blocking the drain that carries a lot of water when it's raining hard. The water crosses the road and comes down into the
• General Request, 22 Oct 2024 Centre white & yellow lines at 80 Scarborough Road are painted too far left (looking downhill). Left lane is only 1900 wide to edge of yello
• Damaged Road, 21 Aug 2023
• Pavement - Damaged, 13 Aug 2023

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.