23 Sumnervale Drive
5 council reports since February 2024, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 43A Sumnervale Drive, 17 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
- Finnsarby Reserve, you are in it
- Sumnervale Reserve, 159 m to the edge · 9 ha · playground, 14 pieces
- Greenwood Park, 206 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Wakefield Reserve No. 1, 304 m to the edge
- Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 440 m to the edge · 1 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Nimbus Paragliding Ltd, 23 m away · Attractions
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, 177 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 26 Feb 2026 The trees and bushes are way out over the footpath in finsarby reserve and need to be trimmed Bach so as people can walk on the footpath ple
Public Toilet, 23 Feb 2026 Boundary fence between my property and council has fallen over. Could someone please put it back as I can’t. Sooner rather then later as it’
Fallen Tree, 2 May 2025 Fallen tree, blocking footpath
Pest / Vermin, 22 Feb 2024 Wasp nest. Wasps attacking people and dogs on public foot path. Entrance to underground nest is a hole below letterbox for 25 Sumnervale dri
- Overgrown Vegetation, 8 Feb 2024
Dry Grass and weeds waist high on empty section of Duncan and Wakefield ave. A real fire hazard
Elsewhere on Sumnervale Drive
- 43A Sumnervale Drive, 17 reports
- 138 Sumnervale Drive, 9 reports
- 98 Sumnervale Drive, 7 reports
- 140 Sumnervale Drive, 6 reports
- 114 Sumnervale Drive, 6 reports
- 88 Sumnervale Drive, 4 reports
- 104 Sumnervale Drive, 4 reports
- 102 Sumnervale Drive, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sumnervale Drive in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 2 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.
Sumnervale Drive, 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
5 council reports on record since February 2024, most often overgrown vegetation (2), public toilet (1), pest / vermin (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Sumnervale Drive.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Finnsarby Reserve, the address is inside it.



