48 Esplanade

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, 25 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
• Cave Rock Reserve, 169 m to the edge · Regional
• Sumner Beach, 188 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
• Greenwood Park, 240 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
• Sumner Croquet Reserve, 345 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, 93 m away · Cafés
• Dear Prudence, 101 m away · Gift shops
• Dotcom, 102 m away · Cafés
• Renaissance, 106 m away · Beauty

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 139 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, 45 m to the line · walk · bike
• Walk and bike track through Sumner, 386 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Scarborough Beach Developed plaque, 92 m away · (illegible – bench plaque too distant) · 2013
• W. Rollitt / Mayor, 200 m away · W. ROLLITT / MAYOR · 2013
• Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 201 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

• Water Supply, 1
• Water Leak, 1
• Parks, 1
• Park - General Request, 1
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
• General Request, 1

Photographed here 6 on record

more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

What’s on record

• Park - General Request, 12 May 2026 Posts and rope from dune protection fence available for reuse before the tide takes them
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Mar 2026 Graffiti on wall
• Damaged Street Sign, 20 Feb 2025 No Cruise Zone sign only half attached and clangs in winds
• General Request, 19 Feb 2025 Water leak outside garage, fifth or sixth time. Needs a full repair not bits
• Water Leak, 19 Feb 2025 Broken water pipe
• Parks, 23 Dec 2021 Illegal dumping
• Water Supply, 27 Dec 2016 Looks like a burst water pipe

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 crashes it names, each one →

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.