18 Esplanade

On the register here

• The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting (65m)
• Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting (146m)

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

• Sumner Beach, you are in it · Regional · 8 ha
• Scarborough Beach, 46 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
• Cave Rock Reserve, 72 m to the edge · Regional
• Sumner Coronation Garden, 265 m to the edge
• Sumner Croquet Reserve, 433 m to the edge

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, 247 m away · Library

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

On the doorstep

• Kiosk 147, 15 m away · Fast food
• Brigittes Sumner, 30 m away · Restaurants
• The Social, 32 m away · Bars & pubs
• Beach Bar, 34 m away · Restaurants

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

The bus nearby

• Marriner St near Richmond Hill Wlk, 106 m away · route 3
• Marriner St near Main Rd, 173 m away · route 3

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

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 85 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 189 m to the line · walk · bike

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

The remembered names nearby

• Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 57 m away · STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER · 2013
• This Monument Was / Refurbished, 60 m away · THIS MONUMENT WAS / REFURBISHED BY THE / CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL / TO COMMEMORATE / THE · 2013
• W. Rollitt / Mayor, 60 m away · W. ROLLITT / MAYOR · 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, 2
• Hazard, vehicle, 1
• Abandoned Vehicle, 1

Photographed here 4 on record

more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

What’s on record

• Abandoned Vehicle, 13 May 2026 this car has been parked here for 5 days with no current wof or registration
• Hazard, vehicle, 8 Mar 2026 this vehicle is parked across 2 disabled parks - no disabled sticker. this car parks like this most mornings despite there being heaps of pa
• Parks, 9 Jan 2022 Water fountain blocked (assumed from foliage)
• Parks, 24 Aug 2020 Water fountain not working. Previously I reported it leaking. It guess the 'fix' was to turn the water off.

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 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.