21 Colenso Street
2 council reports since August 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 58 Colenso Street, 5 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
- Greenwood Park, 156 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 229 m to the edge
- Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 280 m to the edge · 1 ha
- St Leonards Park, 347 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Scarborough Beach, 444 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
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, 493 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Community Centre, 183 m away · Venues & events
- Physio NZ, 376 m away · Physio
- Clink Restaurant and Bar, 380 m away · Restaurants
- L'Estrange Gallery, 400 m away · Galleries
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Nayland St near Hardwicke St, 292 m away · route 3
- Nayland St near Hardwicke St, 308 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 465 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
- Presented by Mrs A.M. O’Vary 1959, 245 m away ·
Presented by Mrs A.M. O’VARY 1959
· 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
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 11 Oct 2025
Street Gutters / Storm Water, 9 Aug 2025 Blocked stormwater drains
Elsewhere on Colenso Street
- 58 Colenso Street, 5 reports
- 65 Colenso Street, 3 reports
- 28 Colenso Street, 3 reports
- 50 Colenso Street, 2 reports
- 15 Colenso Street, 2 reports
- 10–12 Colenso Street, 2 reports
- 6F Colenso Street, 1 report
- 64 Colenso Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colenso Street in 1 crash 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.
Colenso Street, 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
2 council reports on record since August 2025, most often water leak (1), street gutters / storm water (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Colenso Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greenwood Park, 156 m to its edge, 279 ha.