173 Sumner Road
4 council reports since February 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 83–171 Sumner Road, 6 reports on file.
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
- Rapanui Bush, 139 m to the edge · Regional · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 22 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 235 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 326 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 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.
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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 5 Oct 2026 Graffiti all over signs needs removing .
Damaged Street Sign, 23 Feb 2026 Stop sign/pole fallen down requires putting up.
Litter, 15 Jul 2025 Some rubbish in gutters by car parks both sides of road.
- Graffiti, 17 Feb 2023
Elsewhere on Sumner Road
- 83–171 Sumner Road, 6 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sumner Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Sumner Road, 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
4 council reports on record since February 2023, most often litter (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1), graffiti (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Sumner Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rapanui Bush, 139 m to its edge, 2 ha.


