140 Esplanade
8 council reports since October 2022, 3 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 (38m)
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 Park, you are in it · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Scarborough Beach, 34 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 217 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park, 287 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Heritage Trail, 321 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
- Ocean Cafe & Bar, 57 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 61 m away · Cafés
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 63 m away · B&Bs
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 193 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, 53 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, 16 m away ·
(illegible – distant bench plaque)
· 2013 - Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory, 20 m away ·
Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / In Loving Memory / PETER MARSHALL JONES / Sunrises & Sunsets
- This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos, 33 m away ·
THIS POHUTUKAWA WAS PLANTED BY / THOS. NEWBURGH / TO MARK THE CORONATION OF / KING GEORGE
· 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
- Water Leak, 6
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 24 Apr 2024
Water Leak, 20 Apr 2024
Hazard, vehicle, 6 Jan 2024 Illegal parking in disabled bay.
- Water Leak, 29 Mar 2023
- Water Leak, 24 Mar 2023
- Water Leak, 19 Mar 2023
- Water Leak, 15 Mar 2023
- Facility - General Request, 23 Oct 2022
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
8 council reports on record since October 2022, most often water leak (6), hazard, vehicle (1), facility - general request (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Scarborough Park, the address is inside it.


