26 Esplanade
5 council reports since March 2021, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade, 163 reports on file.
On the register here
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
- Scarborough Beach, 19 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Sumner Beach, 20 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve, 54 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Coronation Garden, 313 m to the edge
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 430 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, 243 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Rock Cafe, 25 m away · Cafés
- The Social, 25 m away · Bars & pubs
- Brigittes Sumner, 26 m away · Restaurants
- Kiosk 147, 35 m away · Fast food
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Richmond Hill Wlk, 149 m away · route 3
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 170 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 53 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 237 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
- Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 39 m away ·
STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER
· 2013 - W. Rollitt / Mayor, 40 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 2013 - King Edward VII / Coronation Memorial / 1902, 41 m away ·
KING EDWARD VII / CORONATION MEMORIAL / 1902
· 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
- Water Leak, 1
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
- Damaged Street Sign, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Facility - General Request, 17 Jan 2026 broken seat
Water Leak, 15 Sept 2025 Street toby is rusted and jammed. We have a leak on the property but can’t turn off mains to fix.
- Damaged Street Sign, 31 Jan 2023
- Hazard, vehicle, 20 Jan 2023
Graffiti, 24 Mar 2021
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 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.
Esplanade, 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 March 2021, most often water leak (1), hazard, vehicle (1), graffiti (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting, Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, 19 m to its edge, 5 ha.