12 Esplanade

On the register here

• The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting (55m)
• Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting (182m)
• Dwelling and Setting, 1 The Spur (230m)

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

• Sumner Beach, 9 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
• Scarborough Beach, 83 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
• Cave Rock Reserve, 109 m to the edge · Regional
• Sumner Coronation Garden, 245 m to the edge
• Sumner Croquet Reserve, 408 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, 228 m away · Library

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• Sumner Social, 43 m away · Restaurants
• Kiosk 147, 46 m away · Fast food
• Brigittes Sumner, 56 m away · Restaurants
• The Social, 58 m away · Bars & pubs

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

The bus nearby

• Marriner St near Richmond Hill Wlk, 69 m away · route 3
• Marriner St near Main Rd, 144 m away · route 3

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

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 123 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 164 m to the line · walk · bike

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

The remembered names nearby

• Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 95 m away · STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER · 2013
• This Monument Was / Refurbished, 98 m away · THIS MONUMENT WAS / REFURBISHED BY THE / CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL / TO COMMEMORATE / THE · 2013
• W. Rollitt / Mayor, 98 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

• Hazard, vehicle, 2
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 1
• General Request, 1
• Dumped Rubbish, 1

Photographed here 5 on record

more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

What’s on record

• Dumped Rubbish, 18 May 2026 after cleaning up my/ council berm of rubbish and plant trimmings can someone please remove the green waste my green bin is to small some ra
• Street Gutters / Storm Water, 13 May 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 26 Oct 2025 Parking illegally
• General Request, 12 Sept 2024 pole knocked down replace tha nks
• Hazard, vehicle, 3 Aug 2024 Unnecessary exclusion zone (due to no work happening during weekend) rendering several valuable car parks unusable during a period of high d

Elsewhere on Esplanade

• 147 Esplanade, 163 reports
• 52 Esplanade, 112 reports
• 27 Esplanade, 75 reports
• 25 Esplanade, 45 reports
• 2 Esplanade, 42 reports
• 141 Esplanade, 34 reports
• 62 Esplanade, 31 reports
• 16 Esplanade, 31 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Esplanade in 2 crashes 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.