97 Esplanade, Sumner
22 reports on record since January 2024 · 22 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 147 Esplanade — 160 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak — 4
- Graffiti somewhere else — 4
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 4
- Rubbish and Bins - General — 3
- Water Fountain — 1
- Vandalism - General — 1
Photographed here 22 on record
Reported here
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Pavement - General — broken plates next to beach. high risk of kids cutting feet
Water Fountain — tap completely broken by beach
Water Leak — the spring on the tap is broken and runs constantly. it needs to be a normal tap or replace spring.
Park - General Request — seat is rotten and has sharp fixings protruding
Litter — The fences you put up looked like dumped garbage. Also catching rubbish. Needs cleaning up
Graffiti somewhere else — Graffiti on esplanade wall
Graffiti somewhere else — On wall
Graffiti somewhere else — Graffiti on sea wall on coastal pathway just past Sumner Rocks.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Graffiti on walking path wall.
Water Leak — Outdoor shower lower tap has come off. Lots of water gushing. Someone (member of public) has just turned water off at mains to stop flooding
Water Leak — Broken shower on at cave rock, spraying water
Water Leak — Tap blown out
Graffiti somewhere else — Tagging, on bench, land side of the seawall, the Esplanade, Sumner. As marked on map.
Overgrown Vegetation — Could the council come and clean up the blown sand and overgrown weeds that have been left here for the last few years? Many thanks
Rubbish and Bins - General — Sumner Beach bins need to be emptied more frequently as the beach is a city amenity and gets very busy, especially when the weather is nice
Vandalism - General — Broken bus stop sign opposite no 26 Esplanade Sumner Susan
Graffiti — KAEPE tagging at Sumner Beach near Cave Rock.
Rubbish and Bins - General — This is the Sumner COVID bin. It’s been broken for about 1 years. Please fix. I have snapped this many times.
Rubbish and Bins - General — This bin has been broken and dirty for about a year. It’s a covid hot spot. Please fix or replace. The foot pedal has not worked for over 8
Also reported on Esplanade
- 147 Esplanade — 160 reports
- 52 Esplanade — 111 reports
- 27 Esplanade — 72 reports
- 25 Esplanade — 44 reports
- 2 Esplanade — 42 reports
- 141 Esplanade — 34 reports
- 62 Esplanade — 31 reports
- 16 Esplanade — 30 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 green nearby
- Scarborough Beach — you are in it · Regional · 5 ha
- Cave Rock Reserve — 31 m to the edge · Regional
- Sumner Beach — 37 m to the edge · Regional · 8 ha
- Sumner Coronation Garden — 340 m to the edge
- Sumner Croquet Reserve — 458 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Matuku Takotako/sumner Library — 273 m away · Library · Nayland Street, Sumner
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Rock Cafe — 65 m away · Cafés
- The Social — 65 m away · Bars & pubs
- Brigittes Sumner — 66 m away · Restaurants
- Cave Rock — 68 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Marriner St near Richmond Hill Wlk — 188 m away · route 3
- Marriner St near Wakefield Ave — 199 m away · route 3
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Sumner — 17 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Sumner — 268 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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
- King Edward Vii / Coronation Memorial / 1902 — 35 m away ·
KING EDWARD VII / CORONATION MEMORIAL / 1902
· 2013 - W. Rollitt / Mayor — 36 m away ·
W. ROLLITT / MAYOR
· 2013 - King Edward Memorial plaque — 36 m away ·
(illegible – obstructed/distant monument 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 was here — Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting
99 m away · located to ±70 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting
142 m away · located to ±116 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Heathcote ward — the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
22 council reports on record since January 2024 — most often water leak (4), graffiti somewhere else (4), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4).
Sumner, Christchurch — on Esplanade.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it — Tuawera/Cave Rock and Pilot/Signal Station, and Setting, The Esplanade War Memorials, Sea Walls and Setting.
Scarborough Beach — the address is inside it, 5 ha.