17 Wakefield Avenue

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

• Greenwood Park, 55 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
• Sumner Croquet Reserve, 175 m to the edge
• Scarborough Beach, 184 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
• Sumner Beach, 257 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
• Cave Rock Reserve, 309 m to the edge · Regional

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

The civic shelf nearby

• Matuku Takotako / Sumner Library, 31 m away · Library

Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

On the doorstep

• Red Snapper, 10 m away · Fast food
• Sumner Pharmacy, 10 m away · Pharmacies
• The Headless Mexican, 13 m away · Restaurants
• Treasure Sumner Nail Spa, 19 m away · Beauty

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Wakefield Ave near Nayland St, 31 m away · route 3
• Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 87 m away · route 3

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 225 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 366 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Scarborough Beach Developed plaque, 199 m away · (illegible – bench plaque too distant) · 2013
• In Memory of Mary Jackson, 208 m away · IN MEMORY OF MARY JACKSON · 2000
• Harold Sinclair 1989, 235 m away · HAROLD SINCLAIR 1989 · 2000

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

• Rubbish and Bins - General, 4
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2
• Sewer Odour, 1
• Hazard, vehicle, 1

Photographed here 5 on record

more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

What’s on record

• Rubbish and Bins - General, 3 Apr 2026 rubbish bins over flowing. bins too small
• Hazard, vehicle, 19 Jan 2026 Nearly every day this intergroup vehicle feels the need to park halfway across the cyclelane and as close as possible to Nayland St, blockin
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Apr 2025 Skate ramps cnr Wakefield and Nayland in Sumner. Visible from Nayland heading towards that corner.
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 20 Jan 2025 More graffiti popping up around Sumner
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Oct 2024 Bins need emptying!
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 25 Jan 2023
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 17 Dec 2022
• Sewer Odour, 24 Jan 2021 Strong odour of sewage.

Elsewhere on Wakefield Avenue

• 70 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
• 55 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
• 107 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
• 16 Wakefield Avenue, 6 reports
• 96 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
• 4 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
• 123 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
• 94 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports

The street’s crash record

NZTA’s record names Wakefield Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

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.