12 Van Asch Street
3 council reports since February 2024, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 35 Van Asch Street, 7 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
- St Leonards Park, 97 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 279 m to the edge · 1 ha
- Greenwood Park, 321 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Heritage Trail, 468 m to the edge
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 477 m to the edge
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, 155 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, 474 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 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 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 4 Aug 2025 The water is leaking from the water mains
Pavement - Damaged, 3 Jun 2024 Still not fixed. A contractor turned up last month but after coning of the pavement they left and didn’t complete or even start the work
Pavement - Damaged, 14 Feb 2024 The pavement on the corner of van asch and arnold street has been cracked for a few years but after recent road works in the area the concre
Elsewhere on Van Asch Street
- 35 Van Asch Street, 7 reports
- 33A Van Asch Street, 6 reports
- 48 Van Asch Street, 5 reports
- 23 Van Asch Street, 4 reports
- 33 Van Asch Street, 2 reports
- 29 Van Asch Street, 2 reports
- 27 Van Asch Street, 2 reports
- 52 Van Asch Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Van Asch Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.
Van Asch Street, 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
3 council reports on record since February 2024, most often pavement - damaged (2), water leak (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Van Asch Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
St Leonards Park, 97 m to its edge, 2 ha.


