147R Esplanade
7 council reports since July 2024, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade, 164 reports on file.
On the register here
- Sumner Clock Tower and Setting, 147R Esplanade (11m)
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, 7 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 255 m to the edge
- Nicholson Park, 278 m to the edge · 4 ha · playground, 4 pieces
- Whitewash Reserve, 320 m to the edge · Regional · 9 ha
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, 48 m away · Restaurants
- Scarborough Fare Cafe, 51 m away · Cafés
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 62 m away · B&Bs
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 232 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, 14 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, 8 m away
- This Stone Was Laid by / the Mayoress of Sumner, 12 m away ·
THIS STONE WAS LAID BY / THE MAYORESS OF SUMNER / MRS W. H. NICHOLSON / 17TH DEC 1934
- Scarborough Park plaque, 13 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
- Facility - General Request, 2
- Water Leak, 1
- Trees - General, 1
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Light, 1
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30 May 2026
Damaged Street Light, 24 Oct 2025 Street light along the sumner esplanade not working and creating an unsafe dark spot
Water Leak, 22 Jul 2025 irrigation leaking
Trees - General, 27 Mar 2025 Old branches, logs and dead tree to be removed thanks so much. The people visiting the cafe will be so grateful.
Facility - General Request, 13 Dec 2024 The clock at Scarborough has stopped working for some time now. Is there a chance it might get fixed? Lots of us use our time down there to
General Request, 7 Nov 2024 Please get time correct
Facility - General Request, 24 Jul 2024 Scarborough clock time reading 10.15 at 4.39 pm. To my knowledge it was not that long ago that Cr Malcolm Lyall (SDC) and electrician repair
Elsewhere on Esplanade
- 147 Esplanade, 164 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 July 2024, most often facility - general request (2), water leak (1), trees - general (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.