46 Esplanade
8 council reports since October 2020, 7 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, 44 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve, 152 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Beach, 169 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Greenwood Park, 242 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 352 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, 194 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Dot Com Cafe, 102 m away · Cafés
- Urban Surf, 106 m away · Clothing
- Nurse Maude Hospice Shop, 108 m away · Op shops
- Dear Prudence, 108 m away · Gift shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 134 m away · route 3
- Wakefield Ave near Nayland St, 185 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 48 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 369 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
- Scarborough Beach Developed plaque, 111 m away ·
(illegible – bench plaque too distant)
· 2013 - W. Rollitt / Mayor, 181 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 2013 - Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 182 m away ·
STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER
· 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
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 3
- Roads - General, 1
- Pavement - General, 1
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 1
- Facility - General Request, 1
Photographed here 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 2 Mar 2025 Tree dumped on top of cactus plant
Rubbish and Bins - General, 11 Dec 2024 I live at 46 Esplanade, this is a very busy area at this time of the year. I’m always picking up rubbish on the footpaths and gardens. There
Facility - General Request, 8 Dec 2024 I have been gardening in council gardens on the Esplanade where Marriner street meets the Esplanade and have created a very large pile of g
Pavement - General, 16 Oct 2024 We have noticed a number of people tripping at areas where concrete slabs are not even. A couple of more elderly folk have been quite badly
Rubbish and Bins - General, 16 Feb 2024 Rubbish bins on Esplanade are not emptied often enough. Especially after warm weather days.
Rubbish and Bins - General, 21 Dec 2023 Rubbish bin full and rubbish blowing away. These bins should be emptied at least twice a day. For a tourist beach we do not present oursel
- Pavement - Damaged, 25 Sept 2023
Roads - General, 13 Oct 2020 builder has taken up nearly half the road. Fenced off, no TMP or anything. Traffic has to cross into the other lane to get past.
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
8 council reports on record since October 2020, most often rubbish and bins - general (3), roads - general (1), pavement - general (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, 44 m to its edge, 5 ha.