78 Esplanade
5 council reports since August 2023, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade, 163 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwelling and Setting, 62 Nayland Street (190m)
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, you are in it · Regional · 5 ha
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 368 m to the edge
- Cave Rock Reserve, 452 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Beach, 482 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
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, 366 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- FreshChoice, 253 m away · Supermarkets
- L'Estrange Gallery, 260 m away · Galleries
- Time and Time Again, 269 m away · Clothing
- Dotcom, 269 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Nayland St near Hardwicke St, 161 m away · route 3
- Nayland St near Hardwicke St, 168 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 20 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, 202 m away ·
(illegible – bench plaque too distant)
· 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 General, 1
- Pavement - General, 1
- Hazard, vehicle, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 21 Jan 2025 This campervan has been parked opposite 80 Esplanade, Sumner more than two days consecutively. It’s also too long for the park and is blocki
- Water General, 29 Oct 2024
So much sea lettuce in the surf at Scarborough. Kept getting tangled in it whilst swimming yesterday.
Pavement - General, 9 Mar 2024 Accessibility and endangerment issue. The sand has blown up over the esplanade, particularly between Hardwick & Menzies. For wheelchair use
General Request, 14 Feb 2024 Note the sand infill +++ on Sumner Beach and now onto path. Is it connected to LPC dredging and dumping of spoil directly off shore?
- Graffiti, 8 Aug 2023
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
5 council reports on record since August 2023, most often water general (1), pavement - general (1), hazard, vehicle (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Esplanade.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Dwelling and Setting.
Scarborough Beach, the address is inside it, 5 ha.


