Beach Road

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 North New Brighton.

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 addresses on it

• 245 Beach Road, 31 reports
• 16A Beach Road, 13 reports
• 99 Beach Road, 12 reports
• 228 Beach Road, 9 reports
• 117 Beach Road, 9 reports
• 97 Beach Road, 8 reports
• 181 Beach Road, 8 reports
• 142 Beach Road, 8 reports
• 138 Beach Road, 8 reports
• 91 Beach Road, 7 reports
• 87 Beach Road, 7 reports
• 57A Beach Road, 7 reports
• 210 Beach Road, 7 reports
• 209 Beach Road, 7 reports
• 120 Beach Road, 7 reports
• 57B Beach Road, 6 reports
• 51 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 40 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 37 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 213 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 178 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 165 Beach Road, 6 reports
• 91A Beach Road, 5 reports
• 192 Beach Road, 5 reports
• 18 Beach Road, 5 reports
• 16 Beach Road, 5 reports
• 1 Beach Road, 5 reports
• 95 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 57 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 215 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 164 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 144 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 134 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 9 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 71 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 60 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 245R Beach Road, 3 reports
• 225 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 196 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 175 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 158 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 153 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 148 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 146 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 89 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 85-89 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 85 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 7B Beach Road, 2 reports
• 55 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 53 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 38 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 33 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 29 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 23 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 226 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 224 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 22 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 218 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 216 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 206 Beach Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 176 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 64 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 57 reports
• Water & drains, 34 reports
• Trees & parks, 27 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
• Animals & pests, 5 reports
• Everything else, 3 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 2 reports
• 2016, 4 reports
• 2017, 4 reports
• 2018, 36 reports
• 2019, 20 reports
• 2020, 23 reports
• 2021, 22 reports
• 2022, 33 reports
• 2023, 46 reports
• 2024, 85 reports
• 2025, 61 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, 16 May 1855
  …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, 6 Nov 1858
  …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, 27 Nov 1858
  …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, 31 Aug 1859
  …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, 30 Nov 1859
  …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, 13 Apr 1866
  …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, 1 Jan 1870
  Snow on Brasenose, above buildings along Beach Road in Akaroa. Jan Shuttleworth Collection…
• News of the Week, (Otago Witness, 07 December 1872) · Papers Past, 7 Dec 1872
  …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, 20 Dec 1873
  …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, 23 Jan 1874
  …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, 21 Oct 1874
  …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, 16 Jan 1875
  …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 businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Beach Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• At The Beach Bed & BreakfastB&Bs · 16 Beach Road, Waimairi Beach
• Beach Cafe & Wine BarCafés · 16a Beach Road, Waimairi Beach
• Beach Road Tyre & Auto CentreCar repair · 91 Beach Road
• The naked bakerBakeries · 143 Beach Road

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Beach Road in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

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on the North New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

• Bus Shelter Issue, 175 Beach Road, 9 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 51 Beach Rd, 3 Oct 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 120 Beach Road, 14 Aug 2026
• Water Leak, 222 Beach Rd, 3 Aug 2026
• Damaged Road, 227 Beach Road, 2 Aug 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 181 Beach Rd, 28 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 38 Beach Road, 25 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 16 Beach Rd, 24 Jul 2026
• Street Light Outage, 33 Beach Road, 17 Jul 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 213 Beach Road, 13 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 210 Beach Road, 12 Jul 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 97 Beach Rd, 8 Jul 2026
• Bus Shelter Issue, 161 Beach Road, 7 Jul 2026
• Bus Shelter Issue, 71 Beach Rd, 6 Jul 2026
• Damaged Street Light, 175 Beach Road, 1 Jul 2026