128 Esplanade
7 council reports since August 2015, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade, 163 reports on file.
On the register here
- Sumner Clock Tower and Setting, 147R Esplanade (133m)
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, 15 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Scarborough Park, 117 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 269 m to the edge
- Heritage Trail, 353 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park, 392 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 80 m away · B&Bs
- Ocean Cafe & Bar, 171 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 173 m away · Cafés
- Abbott House Sumner Bed & Breakfast, 237 m away · B&Bs
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, 39 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 Park plaque, 130 m away
- Scarborough Park plaque, 135 m away
- This Stone Was Laid by / the Mayoress of Sumner, 135 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY / THE MAYORESS OF SUMNER / MRS W. H. NICHOLSON / 17TH DEC 1934
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 6 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 31 Aug 2026 Looks like a leaking water main
Rubbish and Bins - General, 2 Mar 2026 Today’s rubbish truck driver must have been in a hurry. Lots of rubbish left around the bins
Park - General Request, 21 Nov 2025 The seat on the landward side of the wall is used primarily by surfers as a short cut to the path to the beach. The seat is never used for s
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 7 Apr 2025 Greenpeace people have plastered these posters on the Summer Seawall and should be removed please
- Overgrown Vegetation, 12 Oct 2022
Graffiti, 21 May 2022 On the sea side of the Esplanade walkway wall across from 128 Esplanade.
Rubbish/Recycling, 14 Aug 2015
This bin has not been emptied in over a week
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 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.
Esplanade, 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 August 2015, most often water leak (1), rubbish/recycling (1), rubbish and bins - general (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, 15 m to its edge, 5 ha.