21 Head Street
4 council reports since March 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 6 Head Street, 8 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
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 100 m to the edge
- Heritage Trail, 148 m to the edge
- Scarborough Park, 197 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Scarborough Beach, 224 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Sea Spray Reserve, 245 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 137 m away · Delis
- Sumner Tennis & Squash Club, 160 m away · Clubs
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 204 m away · B&Bs
- Abbott House Sumner Bed & Breakfast, 241 m away · B&Bs
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, 254 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
- Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory, 234 m away ·
Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / In Loving Memory / PETER MARSHALL JONES / Sunrises & Sunsets
- This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos, 240 m away ·
THIS POHUTUKAWA WAS PLANTED BY / THOS. NEWBURGH / TO MARK THE CORONATION OF / KING GEORGE
· 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
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 9 Feb 2024 Fire hydrant leaking.
Roading/Streets, 14 Apr 2022 Water running out for a long time
Water Leak, 3 Apr 2022
Water Leak, 27 Mar 2022
Elsewhere on Head Street
- 6 Head Street, 8 reports
- 13 Head Street, 7 reports
- 47 Head Street, 5 reports
- 12 Head Street, 4 reports
- 46 Head Street, 3 reports
- 4 Head Street, 3 reports
- 41 Head Street, 2 reports
- 10 Head Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Head Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 1 seriously hurt.
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.
Head 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
4 council reports on record since March 2022, most often water leak (3), roading/streets (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Head Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Bernie Hansen Reserve, 100 m to its edge.



