136A Esplanade
6 council reports since October 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 (66m)
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, 39 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Scarborough Park, 50 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 214 m to the edge
- Heritage Trail, 311 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park, 336 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, 8 m away · B&Bs
- Ocean Cafe & Bar, 102 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 106 m away · Cafés
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 195 m away · Delis
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, 62 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, 64 m away
- Scarborough Park plaque, 65 m away ·
(illegible – distant bench plaque)
· 2013 - Scarborough Park plaque, 67 m away
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
- Parks, 3
- Water General, 1
- Trees - General, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Facility - General Request, 26 May 2025 The clock tower was repaired after the earthquakes but it never has the right time. Can it be fixed???
Water General, 7 Jan 2025 Lid missing from water meter
Trees - General, 15 May 2024 Remove dead cabbage tree
Parks, 18 Dec 2015
Scarborough clock has been attended to before and has not had a lot of success. Goes for a while and stops. Last repair the hands were not
Parks, 9 Nov 2015
Thankyou for having the Scarborough clock looked at. It has stopped working again Could the clock man be a little faster coming to look into
Parks, 9 Oct 2015
Clock has stopped working.
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
6 council reports on record since October 2015, most often parks (3), water general (1), trees - general (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, 39 m to its edge, 5 ha.