8 Heberden Avenue
1 council report since November 2025, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 3 Heberden Avenue, 32 reports on file.
On the register here
- Sumner Clock Tower and Setting, 147R Esplanade (238m)
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
- Bernie Hansen Reserve, 23 m to the edge
- Heritage Trail, 119 m to the edge
- Scarborough Park, 133 m to the edge · Botanic · playground, 48 pieces
- Sea Spray Reserve, 162 m to the edge
- Scarborough Beach, 227 m to the edge · Regional · 5 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Choco-Blitz Scarborough, 33 m away · Delis
- Sumner Tennis & Squash Club, 183 m away · Clubs
- C Views Beachfront Bed and Breakfast, 199 m away · B&Bs
- Ocean Cafe & Bar, 256 m away · Restaurants
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 tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 252 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
- Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / in Loving Memory, 190 m away ·
Donated by Bronwyn and Stan / In Loving Memory / PETER MARSHALL JONES / Sunrises & Sunsets
- This Pohutukawa Was Planted by / Thos, 191 m away ·
THIS POHUTUKAWA WAS PLANTED BY / THOS. NEWBURGH / TO MARK THE CORONATION OF / KING GEORGE
· 2013 - Scarborough Park plaque, 217 m away ·
(illegible – distant bench plaque)
· 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 1 on record
What’s on record
Overgrown Vegetation, 21 Nov 2025 Fire hazard. Please maintain it better
Elsewhere on Heberden Avenue
- 3 Heberden Avenue, 32 reports
- 90 Heberden Avenue, 9 reports
- 95 Heberden Avenue, 7 reports
- 28 Heberden Avenue, 6 reports
- 99 Heberden Avenue, 5 reports
- 111 Heberden Avenue, 5 reports
- 77 Heberden Avenue, 4 reports
- 6 Heberden Avenue, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Heberden Avenue in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Heberden Avenue, 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
1 council report on record since November 2025, most often overgrown vegetation (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Heberden Avenue.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Sumner Clock Tower and Setting.
Bernie Hansen Reserve, 23 m to its edge.