7A Whitfield Street
2 council reports since October 2025, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Whitfield Street, 12 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
- Greenwood Park, 140 m to the edge · Regional · 279 ha
- Wakefield Reserve No. 2, 191 m to the edge · 1 ha
- St Leonards Park, 241 m to the edge · Sports ground · 2 ha · playground, 61 pieces
- Sumner Croquet Reserve, 319 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Sumner Community Centre, 291 m away · Venues & events
- Sumner Sports Pavilion, 354 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 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
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Water Leak, 7 Apr 2026 We think it's a burst pipe, not sure. But as you can see it's leaking pretty badly.
Overgrown Vegetation, 7 Oct 2025 This is over hanging foot path and ruining pohutakawa
Elsewhere on Whitfield Street
- 19 Whitfield Street, 12 reports
- 7 Whitfield Street, 6 reports
- 26 Whitfield Street, 4 reports
- 52 Whitfield Street, 3 reports
- 8 Whitfield Street, 1 report
- 48 Whitfield Street, 1 report
- 47 Whitfield Street, 1 report
- 44 Whitfield 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.
Whitfield 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
2 council reports on record since October 2025, most often water leak (1), overgrown vegetation (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Whitfield Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Greenwood Park, 140 m to its edge, 279 ha.

