5 Burgess Street
8 council reports since February 2016, 3 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Burgess Street.
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, 94 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
- Sumner Beach, 139 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve, 170 m to the edge · Regional
- Greenwood Park, 185 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 314 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, 132 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Nurse Maude Hospice Shop, 32 m away · Op shops
- Urban Surf, 39 m away · Clothing
- Bonobo Café, 40 m away · Cafés
- Underground Coffee Company, 41 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave, 59 m away · route 3
- Wakefield Ave near Nayland St, 123 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 296 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
- Stan Rule / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 / Son of Sumner, 159 m away ·
STAN RULE / Q.S.M. / 1924 – 19 (illegible) / SON OF SUMNER
· 2013 - W. Rollitt / Mayor, 160 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 2013 - King Edward VII / Coronation Memorial / 1902, 161 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 gets reported here
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 19 Nov 2024 Water leak under footpath. Looks like potential leaking pipe
Water General, 3 Dec 2023 Cover doesn’t go down. Tripping hazard.
- Water Leak, 8 Aug 2023
- Water Leak, 5 Aug 2023
- Pavement - General, 24 Nov 2022
- Water General, 24 Nov 2022
- Water General, 6 Nov 2022
Roading/Streets, 26 Feb 2016
This ramp practically takes the bottom off cars
Elsewhere on Burgess Street
- 6 Burgess Street, 2 reports
- 3 Burgess Street, 2 reports
- 8 Burgess Street, 1 report
- 2 Burgess Street, 1 report
- 1–9 Burgess Street, 1 report
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.
Burgess 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
8 council reports on record since February 2016, most often water leak (3), water general (3), roading/streets (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Burgess Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it, The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting, Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, 94 m to its edge, 5 ha.

