te-onepoto-taylors-mistake, Christchurch

Living here rent · the ground · the day-to-day

The ground: 9% of the outline went into the residential red zone; the mapped tsunami reach covers 44% of it, the rest of the watch is drawn further down.

Day to day it holds 1 park, each is counted further down.

Lately the record’s mostly water & drains, 18 reports in the year to 14 October 2026, the newest 2 October 2026.

One for the quiz, Its busiest day on record was 11 June 2023, 13 reports in a single day.

2023 Census snapshot SA1 areas grouped here

About the suburb

Te Onepoto / Taylors Mistake is an area in New Zealand's South Island, at the southeastern extremity of the city of Christchurch Taylors Mistake is a bay adjacent to the locality, on the north side of Awaroa / Godley Head, on the northern edge of Banks Peninsula.

As reported 106 on record

106 photographs
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The shape of it outline © OpenStreetMap · recent reports, pinned

Lately the newest reports

2 Oct 2026 Dumped RubbishCanterbury

Mattress dragged up from the sea - safety concern for swimmers.

22 Sept 2026 Public Toilet229 Taylors Mistake Road

maybe already dealt with, as i took this pic Sunday but no service at Taylor's so didn't send to now! i think the southerly blew the door off its hinge!

4 Sept 2026 Dumped Rubbish35 Taylors Mistake Road

Trees trimmed and rubbish left on dunes

12 Aug 2026 Graffiti on a fence, building or structure28 Taylors Mistake Bay

on gate near start of Godley Head walkway

12 Aug 2026 Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art69 Taylors Mistake Bay

on sign at Taylor's mistake near bridge by carpark

31 May 2026 Park - General Request40 Drop

Informal track from public toilets to start of godley head track - wire from old fence low on the ground. I tripped over it. don't worry, I'm fine.

29 Apr 2026 Overgrown Vegetation47 Drop

the pathway at start if Godley heads walk is overgrown and walkers trample the grassed area. The top heavy cabbage tree is not stable and potentially may fall…

22 Feb 2026 Water Leak31 Taylors Mistake Road

Water leak as per photo outside of batch 32 behind conference bush

22 Feb 2026 Water Fountain47 Drop

water fountain leak. has been leaking for at least 3 weeks.

27 Jan 2026 Pavement - General30 Drop

Tripping hazard on popular public walking track.

12 Jan 2026 Animal - Deceased223 Taylors Mistake Road

Dead sheep behind the sewage pump building in Taylors Mistake car park. Been there two days. Very strong smell.

11 Jan 2026 Facility - General Request63 Drop

A third night of young males with alcohol accessing the baches scheduled for demo. The security fencing needs to be replaced immediately and the baches demoed…

How fast the council fixes things here 608 finished jobs on record

The median council work order pinned in te-onepoto-taylors-mistake took 6 days to resolve, the city-wide median is 3 days, so this ground runs slower than the city as a whole. The slowest tenth waited 5 months or longer. 35 tickets are open here now, the oldest was filed 11 June 2023.

Work orders, not the resident reports above, the council’s MyCouncilTicket stream, and one job can appear in both. A median counts only finished jobs; open ones are named as open, never averaged in. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.

Schools here

Zoned for Christchurch Adventist School · Hillview Christian School · Marian College · Middleton Grange School · St Thomas of Canterbury College · Sumner School · and 2 more zones, the drawn zone is indicative; the Ministry’s written scheme is the legal boundary.

The green here 1

• Taylors Mistake BeachRegional · 9 ha · playground, 7 pieces

Parks and reserves in the council’s open data, a park lands in the suburb its centre falls inside. The whole roll is at /parks.

The names on this ground 2

The Crown’s 2011 classification drew 8.9% of this outline inside the residential red zone. A mapped area files under the suburb its middle sits in, and a classification is the record of a decision, not a finding about an address; the whole line is drawn at /redzone.

The mapped tsunami extent covers 44% of this outline, about 8 hectares. The sea’s modelled reach, not a prediction, the plan’s inundation line, not the evacuation zones; the share is read from a sampled join. The whole extent is drawn at /tsunami.

The plan’s slope-hazard bands cover 10% of this outline, rockfall management area 2, cliff collapse management area 2, rockfall management area 1. The broad remaining-instability overlay covers 46% of it besides, the plan’s background watch over the hill country. Shares read from a sampled join; a management overlay, not a prediction. The whole watch is drawn at /slope.

The files record 1 parcel of made or characterised ground inside this outline. A record is the file’s word on what was laid, not a fresh survey; the whole layer is drawn at /fill.

The rockfall survey mapped 4 rocks inside this outline across 4 survey pins, 3 came down. A pin may stand for a cluster and marks where the survey saw the rock, not where it is now; the whole survey is drawn at /boulders.

The council’s structure register stands 16 assets on this ground, 9 bridges, 7 sets of steps, sited at Taylors Mistake Beach, Whitewash Reserve. The register’s site names are its own labels for the ground an asset stands in; the layer is drawn at the map.

The register counts 36 living trees inside this outline, mostly Pohutukawa, Kaikomako, Tarata / Lemonwood. The file remembers 1 tree felled here. A tree record is the register’s word on what stands or stood; the whole canopy is drawn at /trees.

The plan files 38% of this outline under Open Space Coastal, 24% residential, the rest mostly Residential Hills 24%, Open Space Natural 17%, 89% of the outline fell inside a mapped zone. A zone is a permission, not a description, the mix is read from a sampled join of the plan’s polygons; the whole district is drawn at /zones.

The plan’s heritage schedule protects 32 places by name in this suburb, 34 Taylors Mistake Bay, 48 Taylors Mistake Bay, 51 Taylors Mistake Bay among them. A setting is the ground the item stands in, each files under the suburb holding its centroid; the whole schedule is at /heritage.

The plan’s schedule of sites significant to Ngāi Tahu covers 86% of this outline, about 15 hectares, ngā tūranga tūpuna, ngā wai. Shares read from a sampled join; a recognition overlay, not a catalogue. The whole schedule is drawn at /cultural.

The plan’s landscape schedules cover 74% of this outline, about 13 hectares across 4 scheduled areas, 33% of it outstanding, the plan’s strongest landscape standing, and 97% of it sits inside the coastal environment. Shares read from a sampled join; a protection overlay, not a ranking of views. The kept view is drawn at /landscape.

The plan’s water-margin layers cross this outline, 3 classified reaches, the plan calling Mcclurg Watercourse and Taylors Mistake Road Drain by name, 6% of it inside the setback strips, the widest holding 20 m off the bank, and an esplanade line holds a public edge here. The margin is the plan’s drawing, not a survey of the bank; the reaches, strips and held edges are mapped at /water-margin.

The plan’s allowed shape holds this outline, 36 numbered bach settlements sit inside. The shape is the plan’s permission, not a survey of what stands; the allowed shape is drawn at /density.

The rebuild’s cameras filed 44 photographs on this ground, stormwater work mostly. Each frame is a receipt the dig left behind, a work log, not a survey of what stands now; the whole record is drawn at /rebuild.

The remembered names stand on this ground, 3 inscribed plaques, Taylors Mistake Beach, Godley Beach Park among the grounds. The plaque is the register’s pin, not a surveyed spot; the whole roll is kept at /plaques.

The rulebook binds this ground, 12 drawn instruments, 12 of them dog rules; the outline sits inside the takiwā of Te Ngai Tuahuriri Runanga. The bylaw is the instrument, this the map of it, the whole rulebook is drawn at /rules.

GeoNet’s catalogue puts 3 magnitude-3+ epicentres inside this outline since the sequence opened, the biggest a M3.6 in 2011. An epicentre is where the instruments placed the break, not a measure of the shaking here; the whole catalogue is counted at /sequence, the live record is /quakes, and the story in plain language is the earthquakes explainer.

• Taylor's Mistake Beachbeach
• Black Rock Pointheadland

The named waterways, bays, headlands, monuments, summits and old sites OpenStreetMap puts inside this outline, a pin is the mapper’s own; a waterway belongs to every suburb it crosses. Every roll, counted: /geography.

The crash record 2 injury crashes

2 crashes that hurt somebody on record inside te-onepoto-taylors-mistake's outline, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner that keeps appearing: Taylors Mistake Road at Taylors Mistake Bay, 1 injury crash.

the suburb’s crashes on the map →

The crime record 10 recorded victimisations

10 victimisations on the Police record inside te-onepoto-taylors-mistake’s outline, September 2022–August 2026, mostly theft, about 32 a year per 1,000 residents. Reported is not all, how much never reaches the record depends on the offence.

the suburb on the crime map →

Businesses here 1 in the directory

1 premises in te-onepoto-taylors-mistake across 1 kind, from OpenStreetMap, the council’s licensed-premises register and its 2024 Find Christchurch directory. Each kind below opens at this suburb’s shelf.

• Attractions1

The whole directory →

On the register here

1. 48 Taylors Mistake Bay48 Taylors Mistake Bay
2. 51 Taylors Mistake Bay51 Taylors Mistake Bay
3. 52 Taylors Mistake Bay52 Taylors Mistake Bay
4. 53 Taylors Mistake Bay55 Taylors Mistake Bay
5. 58 Taylors Mistake Bay58 Taylors Mistake Bay
6. 60 Taylors Mistake Bay60 Taylors Mistake Bay
7. 69 Taylors Mistake Bay69 Taylors Mistake Bay
8. 70 Taylors Mistake Bay70 Taylors Mistake Bay
9. Godley Head
10. Taylors Mistake Bach 168 Taylors Mistake Bay
11. Taylors Mistake Bach 1030 Taylors Mistake Bay
12. Taylors Mistake Bach 1128 Taylors Mistake Bay
13. Taylors Mistake Bach 259 Taylors Mistake Bay
14. Taylors Mistake Bach 357 Taylors Mistake Bay
15. Taylors Mistake Bach 456 Taylors Mistake Bay
16. Taylors Mistake Bach 549 Taylors Mistake Bay
17. Taylors Mistake Bach 646 Taylors Mistake Bay
18. Taylors Mistake Bach 733 Taylors Mistake Bay

Documents 40

What the archive’s sources say about te-onepoto-taylors-mistake, titled for it, turned up by a search for one of its places, or carrying its name in the text. These are leads and citations: the originals live at the provider, linked from each row.

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

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