141 Esplanade, Sumner
34 reports on record since November 2021 · 22 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade — 160 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 22 on record
Reported here
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Park - General Request — The Esplanade is one of the premier parks in Chch, but it looks neglected these days. When I first came to it in 2011 all the plantings were
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — - Pavement - Damaged —
Really bad flooding every time it rains on the footpath leading to the cafe. Repair of digging a channel from path is not at all effective.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa — Posters pasted on scarborough esplanade wall yesterday. Woman said "wall is public property"?? So she is defacing public property?
Damaged Street Sign — Head St road sign has been pulled off power pole
Park - General Request — Once again two bins not cleared and overflowing. This one and Scarborough Road before it goes up the hill. Sea side. How often do these bins
General Request — Why does this clock never show the right time?!!! Photo taken at 9:28am.
Graffiti somewhere else — Tagging, seaward side of sea wall, Sumner Esplanade. Near the clock tower, where marked on map.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Over flowing bins
Park - General Request — This area near the clock tower continues to be an issue for walkers. The gardeners have cleared the leaves yet it still floods making this p
Park - General Request — Tree management. This tree was planted a few months ago and it appears that no water or other care has been offered to it since planting.
Rubbish and Bins - General — Plus the one nearest the toilets
Rubbish and Bins - General — - Pavement - Damaged —
- Vandalism - General —
- Overgrown Vegetation —
- Pavement - Damaged —
- Overgrown Vegetation —
- Animal - Deceased —
- Pavement - Damaged —
- Pavement - Damaged —
- Pavement - Damaged —
- Graffiti —
- Park - General Request —
Rubbish and Bins - General — Overloaded rubbish bin that seagulls use for entertainment
Park - General Request — Hi, a light out at the end of Head St near the Esplanade. Thankyou for attending to the other light. Alex
Pavement - General — Hi, I understand it's a different group who attend to the esplanade side. As in a previous email I don't have the natural product I've hear
Park - General Request — Hi, these weeds have continued to remain at in gardens at the end of Head Street? I have a sprayer but not the natural product I learnt is
Graffiti — 
Graffiti — These graffiti messages have appeared on The Esplanade. Not at all appropriate. Someone’s little darling who needs a good kick up the backs
Graffiti — Esplanade
Parks — 
Parks — There are a large number of dying bumblebees at Scarborough playground. These could be a danger to the children. A quick web search suggests
Also reported on Esplanade
- 147 Esplanade — 160 reports
- 52 Esplanade — 111 reports
- 27 Esplanade — 72 reports
- 25 Esplanade — 44 reports
- 2 Esplanade — 42 reports
- 62 Esplanade — 31 reports
- 16 Esplanade — 30 reports
- 147A Esplanade — 28 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 green nearby
- Scarborough Beach — you are in it · Regional · 5 ha
- Scarborough Park — 37 m to the edge · Botanic
- Bernie Hansen Reserve — 255 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park — 317 m to the edge · 4 ha
- Whitewash Reserve — 344 m to the edge · Regional · 9 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast — 38 m away · B&Bs
- Ocean Cafe & Bar — 91 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe — 94 m away · Cafés
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough — 236 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 — 21 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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 — 51 m away
- This Stone Was Laid by / the Mayoress of Sumner — 55 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY / THE MAYORESS OF SUMNER / MRS W. H. NICHOLSON / 17TH DEC 1934
- Scarborough Park plaque — 56 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 was here — Sumner Clock Tower and Setting
54 m away · 147R Esplanade · located to ±11 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
34 council reports on record since November 2021 — most often park - general request (7), pavement - damaged (6), rubbish and bins - general (4).
Sumner, Christchurch — on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it — Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Scarborough Beach — the address is inside it, 5 ha.