38 Esplanade, Sumner
12 reports on record since January 2022 · 9 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade — 160 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 9 on record
Reported here
Accessibility — You’ve made the esplanade so much worse!! Spend the money and get it asphalted. Kids can’t ride their bikes or scooters and my daughter has
General Request — Cone on pole that CCC might want back. Could be in the way when not used.
Rubbish and Bins - General — The bins at Sumner Beach need frequent emptying, especially at weekends when the place gets busy with visitors.
Graffiti — Encourages others. Unsightly.
Water Leak — Water leak outside 48 Esplanade, Sumner.
Pavement - General — This might have already been solved this was from a few days ago and I forgot to report. Cheers.
- Vandalism - General —
- Damaged Street Sign —
- Animal - Domestic —
Rubbish/Recycling — Mattress on the beach at Sumner roughly across from Burgess Street.
Rubbish/Recycling — Abandoned mattress on Scarborough beach.
Rubbish/Recycling — The bin has not been emptied since the weekend
Also reported on Esplanade
- 147 Esplanade — 160 reports
- 52 Esplanade — 111 reports
- 27 Esplanade — 72 reports
- 25 Esplanade — 44 reports
- 2 Esplanade — 42 reports
- 141 Esplanade — 34 reports
- 62 Esplanade — 31 reports
- 16 Esplanade — 30 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 green nearby
- Scarborough Beach — 24 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve — 75 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Beach — 89 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Sumner Coronation Garden — 388 m to the edge
- Sumner Croquet Reserve — 409 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Matuku Takotako/sumner Library — 231 m away · Library · Nayland Street, Sumner
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Rock Cafe — 90 m away · Cafés
- The Social — 92 m away · Bars & pubs
- Brigittes Sumner — 94 m away · Restaurants
- Sumner Social — 104 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave — 158 m away · route 3
- Marriner St near Richmond Hill Wlk — 211 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner — 36 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner — 310 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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
- W. Rollitt / Mayor — 99 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 2013 - Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner — 100 m away ·
STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER
· 2013 - King Edward Vii / Coronation Memorial / 1902 — 100 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 was here — Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting
159 m away · located to ±70 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting
187 m away · located to ±116 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
12 council reports on record since January 2022 — most often rubbish/recycling (3), water leak (1), vandalism - general (1).
Sumner, Christchurch — on Esplanade.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it — Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting, The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting.
Scarborough Beach — 24 m to its edge, 5 ha.








