47 Head Street
5 council reports since August 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 6 Head Street, 8 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 58 Colenso Street (97m)
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
- Heritage Trail, 130 m to the edge
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 139 m to the edge
- Sea Spray Reserve, 266 m to the edge
- St Leonards Park, 303 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Scarborough Park, 376 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Tennis & Squash Club, 70 m away · Clubs
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 274 m away · Delis
- Abbott House Sumner Bed & Breakfast, 340 m away · B&Bs
- Sumner Sports Pavilion, 390 m away · Clubs
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, 450 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
- Water Pollution - Sediment, 1
- Water Leak, 1
- Roads - General, 1
- Pavement - Damaged, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Water Pollution - Sediment, 26 Dec 2025 The Sumner stream stinks like faeces, most likely all the sludge that’s along the bottom of the stream. Can we get some people out to scrap
Roads - General, 27 Apr 2025 Head street has been sealed with gravel that is now everywhere. all up our drives. in our car tyres , in our shoes that are ruining our wood
Pavement - Damaged, 27 Apr 2025 Road full of stone chips after botched road fix
General Request, 29 Jan 2024 The Sumner stream (which runs through it property) was recently cleaned out of vegetation. However the guys that cleaned it out left a big
- Water Leak, 24 Aug 2023
Elsewhere on Head Street
- 6 Head Street, 8 reports
- 13 Head Street, 7 reports
- 21 Head Street, 4 reports
- 12 Head Street, 4 reports
- 46 Head Street, 3 reports
- 4 Head Street, 3 reports
- 41 Head Street, 2 reports
- 10 Head Street, 2 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Head Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 1 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.
Head Street, 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 August 2023, most often water pollution - sediment (1), water leak (1), roads - general (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Head Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting.
Heritage Trail, 130 m to its edge.