107 Wakefield Avenue
7 council reports since February 2019, 5 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
- Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 12 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Greenwood Park, 100 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- St Leonards Park, 188 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Wakefield Reserve No. 1, 188 m to the edge
- Sanscrit Reserve, 452 m to the edge · playground, 8 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Sports Pavilion, 333 m away · Clubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 103 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.
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 5 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 22 Apr 2026 Fence damaged below retaining wall. Looks like hit by car.
- Water Leak, 9 Oct 2025
In intersection of Duncan and Wakefield there is a water leak
Water Leak, 20 Jul 2025 Water leaking in road at junction of Duncan Street and Wakefield Avenue. Looks to be site of previous repair.
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Jan 2024 Very dry very long grass on site of old Captain Thomas Courts. Possible fire hazard
Overgrown Vegetation, 4 Dec 2023 Over grown flax etc in cycleway. I had a fuel tanker within 20 cm of me while biking past this vegetation. Lease trim back
- Road Signage, 20 Nov 2022
Water Supply, 7 Feb 2019
Water leak coming from close to footpath, now has running water onto red zone land.
Elsewhere on Wakefield Avenue
- 17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 reports
- 70 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 55 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 16 Wakefield Avenue, 6 reports
- 96 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 4 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 123 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 94 Wakefield Avenue, 4 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
7 council reports on record since February 2019, most often water leak (2), overgrown vegetation (2), water supply (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Wakefield Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 12 m to its edge, 1 ha.



