Beach Road
71 reports at 9 addresses in Burwood, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 57 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Beach Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Burwood.
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 addresses on it
- 280 Beach Road, 30 reports
- 245 Beach Road, 16 reports
- 257 Beach Road, 15 reports
- 245R Beach Road, 5 reports
- 270-280 Beach Road, 1 report
- 259 Beach Road, 1 report
- 258 Beach Road, 1 report
- 256-268 Beach Road, 1 report
- 253 Beach Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 18 reports
- Trees & parks, 13 reports
- Water & drains, 10 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 8 reports
- Everything else, 8 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2018, 4 reports
- 2019, 2 reports
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 12 reports
- 2024, 18 reports
- 2025, 17 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 388 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- REPORT. (Lyttelton Times, 16 May 1855)
· Papers Past,
…bangor street which passes over seven chains of sandhills and rocky points and joins the beach road with a sharp turn at a point vh the road will have to be formed in rock-side cutting proposed alter…
- ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1858)
· Papers Past,
…f c j town portion of ohoko-road old lino 6 j of north road 50i a i akaroa 5 jetty 80 11 beach road robinson bay and german c bay road cemetery 50 roads in the peninsula 50 t akaroa direct road 50 ti…
- Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 27 November 1858)
· Papers Past,
…er 130 total 2260 the following items of public works were then taken w akaroajetty j 800 beach road to cemetery i-x 300 roads on the peninsula 900 on the last vote an amendment was proposed by mr whi…
- The Lyttelton Times. (Lyttelton Times, 31 August 1859)
· Papers Past,
…beon j built into six feet depth at low water and a t head and crane are in progress the beach road is being formed and the path to the cemetery formed ami metalled at tirnaru the principal street is…
- ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1859-60. (Lyttelton Times, 30 November 1859)
· Papers Past,
…79 1 6 korth bond to the 14th mile n gj f gt mthroad rain add direct rad 40401 tll akaroa beach road banks pemnsula-pnrau to akaroa 500 0 puran to pigeon bay isn n u pnrau to okain bay h n wh piraki t…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Timaru Herald, 13 April 1866)
· Papers Past,
…north boundary of timaru town ralph simpson blake patrick timaru leasehold rhodes cottage beach road timaru william munro blanchett augustus timaru freehold house and land woollcombe-street john youug…
- Snow in Akaroa
· Canterbury Stories,
Snow on Brasenose, above buildings along Beach Road in Akaroa. Jan Shuttleworth Collection…
- News of the Week, (Otago Witness, 07 December 1872)
· Papers Past,
…um of 200 voted by the provincial council during last session for the continuation of the beach road his honour after hearing what the deputation had to urge said he agreed with them that the money ou…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 20 December 1873)
· Papers Past,
…they were willing to contribute 200 out of their rates if the government would extend the beach road recently constructed by prison labour at port chalmers down to the heads the superintendent gave th…
- Provincial Council. (Star, 23 January 1874)
· Papers Past,
…ton drainage 175 fireproof safe timaru survey office 250 heathcote hills road 500 waipara beach road 100 schedule b sumner road 1000 schedule c railways cowcatchers bells c for locomotives 1000 harbou…
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 21 October 1874)
· Papers Past,
…after the performance the gramme for the concert is a most attractive one yr-i y kaiapoi beach road--the mandeville and rangiora road board have advertised for tenders for raising this road to tho le…
- News of the Week. (Otago Witness, 16 January 1875)
· Papers Past,
…to the harbour to st leonards a plan win h is always ineonvenitnt and often danger us the beach road from town is of course available but there is no public conveyance a great many families t dunedin…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Beach Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Overgrown Vegetation, 280 Beach Rd,
- Facility - General Request, 280 Beach Road,
- General Request, 280 Beach Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 253 Beach Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 257 Beach Road,
- Facility - General Request, 280 Beach Rd,
- Fallen Tree, 280 Beach Road,
- General Request, 257 Beach Rd,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 280 Beach Rd,
- Hazard, vehicle, 280 Beach Road,
- General Request, 245 Beach Rd,
- Pavement - General, 245 Beach Rd,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 245 Beach Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 280 Beach Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 280 Beach Rd,
Questions, answered briefly
In Burwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.
71 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (18), trees & parks (13), water & drains (10).
2016, the record covers 57 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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