1 Wakefield Avenue
2 council reports since October 2023, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 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
- Scarborough Beach, 121 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Greenwood Park, 129 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Sumner Beach, 198 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve, 232 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 252 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Matuku Takotako / Sumner Library, 80 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Niche Coffee & Eatery, 20 m away · Cafés
- Own Masala, 27 m away · Restaurants
- Urban Surf, 28 m away · Clothing
- Sumner Re Treat, 31 m away · B&Bs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 37 m away · route 3
- Wakefield Ave near Nayland St, 70 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 160 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 336 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
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
- Scarborough Beach Developed plaque, 158 m away ·
(illegible – bench plaque too distant)
· 2013 - Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 224 m away ·
STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER
· 2013 - W. Rollitt / Mayor, 225 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 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 Sumner 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 1 on record
What’s on record
Poles and Signage - General, 17 Jan 2024 We are having trouble with cars parking across the driveway access to the carparking in our building at 1 Wakefield Ave (access from Mariner
- Damaged Street Sign, 30 Oct 2023
Elsewhere on Wakefield Avenue
- 17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 reports
- 70 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 55 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 107 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 16 Wakefield Avenue, 6 reports
- 96 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 4 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 123 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wakefield Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Wakefield Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Sumner → · 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
2 council reports on record since October 2023, most often poles and signage - general (1), damaged street sign (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Wakefield Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Scarborough Beach, 121 m to its edge, 5 ha.