83–171 Sumner Road
6 council reports since July 2025, 6 carrying a photograph. The most-reported address on Sumner Road.
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, 140 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, 62 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 155 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 203 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner, 271 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, 153 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
Photographed here 6 on record
What’s on record
Litter, 14 Sept 2026 Lots of rubbish both sides of the fence at top of Evan’s Pass.
Abandoned Vehicle, 25 May 2026 Dumped stolen vehicle , broken window, ignition broken left with bonnet open in car park
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Mar 2026
Abandoned Vehicle, 17 Oct 2025 This damaged vehicle is left in car park , may be stolen, needs removing.
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 11 Aug 2025 Someone has put Graffiti on the bank/wall on Sumner Rd 3/4 way to the top ,needs removing
Abandoned Vehicle, 3 Jul 2025 There is a damaged vehicle, most likely stolen in car park, needs removing as will be more damaged or set on fire. There are no number plate
Elsewhere on Sumner Road
- 173 Sumner Road, 4 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Sumner Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
Sumner 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 July 2025, most often abandoned vehicle (3), litter (1), graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge (1).
Sumner, Christchurch, on Sumner Road.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Rapanui Bush, 140 m to its edge, 2 ha.





