551 Summit Road
6 council reports since March 2022, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 450 Summit Road, 20 reports on file.
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
- Rapanui Bush, 79 m to the edge · Regional · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 21 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 107 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 152 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 218 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Rapanui Bush plaque, 93 m away ·
(illegible – dual plaques on boulder)
· 1998
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
- Roading/Streets, 2
- Street Cleaning, 1
- Pothole, 1
- Litter, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
Photographed here 4 on record
What’s on record
Street Cleaning, 6 Oct 2024 Lots of glass at edge of road going up Sumner Road from Lyttelton. Vary hazardous when cycling!
Pothole, 9 Mar 2024 Hole on bend needs repairing for bike race season to sky 17/324
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Jun 2023
- Litter, 28 Dec 2022
Roading/Streets, 5 May 2022 Sink hole in the side of the road near the entrance to Capt Thomas track
Roading/Streets, 24 Mar 2022 Tomo, at least 3m deep by the look, extending down under the road
Elsewhere on Summit Road
- 450 Summit Road, 20 reports
- 575 Summit Road, 11 reports
- 491 Summit Road, 7 reports
- 2 Summit Road, 7 reports
- 22–300 Summit Road, 6 reports
- 1020 Summit Road, 6 reports
- 503 Summit Road, 5 reports
- 497–547 Summit Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Summit Road in 25 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 9 seriously hurt.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Banks Peninsula ward, the Banks Peninsula 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.
Summit Road, 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
6 council reports on record since March 2022, most often roading/streets (2), street cleaning (1), pothole (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Summit Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rapanui Bush, 79 m to its edge, 2 ha.