38 Wakefield Avenue
2 council reports since November 2016, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 62 Nayland Street (210m)
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
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 5 m to the edge
- Greenwood Park, 44 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Scarborough Beach, 335 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Sumner Beach, 417 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve, 479 m to the edge · Regional
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, 183 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Clink Restaurant and Bar, 85 m away · Restaurants
- Fuse Youth Cafe, 102 m away · Cafés
- Sumner Post Office Bar, 109 m away · Bars & pubs
- Sumner Medical Rooms, 114 m away · Doctors & clinics
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, 350 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 492 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
- In Memory of Mary Jackson, 46 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF MARY JACKSON
· 2000 - Harold Sinclair 1989, 65 m away ·
HAROLD SINCLAIR 1989
· 2000 - Donated by E & U …, 72 m away ·
DONATED BY E & u … (Unreadable plate – very faint)
· 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
Hazard, vehicle, 1 Feb 2026 this advertising trailer has been parked here for months, it is an eyesore, a distraction, and impinges parking and traffic on Wakefield Ave
Roading/Streets, 1 Nov 2016
Gates open on a very public HEB construction site -
Elsewhere on Wakefield Avenue
- 17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 reports
- 70 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 55 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 107 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports
- 16 Wakefield Avenue, 6 reports
- 96 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 4 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
- 123 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Wakefield Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Wakefield Avenue, 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 November 2016, most often roading/streets (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Wakefield Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting.
Sumner Croquet Reserve, 5 m to its edge.