142 Esplanade
8 council reports since December 2018, 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 (52m)
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, 52 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 210 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park, 281 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Heritage Trail, 314 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, 59 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 63 m away · Cafés
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 81 m away · B&Bs
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 184 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, 68 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
- Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory, 6 m away ·
Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / In Loving Memory / PETER MARSHALL JONES / Sunrises & Sunsets
- This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos, 13 m away ·
THIS POHUTUKAWA WAS PLANTED BY / THOS. NEWBURGH / TO MARK THE CORONATION OF / KING GEORGE
· 2013 - Scarborough Park plaque, 28 m away ·
(illegible – distant bench plaque)
· 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
- Parks, 4
- Park - General Request, 1
- Overgrown Vegetation, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 31 Dec 2025 Gardens around clock tower need pulling out and grassed or replanted
Facility - General Request, 10 Dec 2024 Table has some broken bolts and tips over when you sit on one side of it. Timber is also broken on the bench
- Park - General Request, 11 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 5 Jun 2023
Parks, 7 Sept 2020 one of the eye hooks holding up a support rope on the rope course has come undone.
Parks, 5 Sept 2020 broken attachment
Parks, 14 Dec 2019
Scarborough playground big belly bin door unable to fully open as base has slumped!!
Parks, 18 Dec 2018
The toilets are in desperate need of a clean at the Scarborough playground. Facies all over the floor and toilet of one of them.
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 December 2018, most often parks (4), park - general request (1), overgrown vegetation (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.