2R Beach 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

• Waimairi Beach Park, you are in it · Regional · 61 ha
• Broad Park, 43 m to the edge · 2 ha · playground, 109 pieces
• North Beach, 111 m to the edge · Regional · 18 ha
• Aston Reserve, 436 m to the edge · playground, 27 pieces

Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.

On the doorstep

• Beach Cafe & Wine Bar, 151 m away · Cafés
• Jungle Cafe, 152 m away · Cafés
• Brighton Beach House, 163 m away · Cafés
• At The Beach Bed & Breakfast, 173 m away · B&Bs

Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.

The bus nearby

• Aston Dr near Beach Rd, 228 m away · route 80
• Aston Dr near Beach Rd, 233 m away · route 80

The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.

The tracks through here

• Walk and bike track through Waimairi Beach, 83 m to the line · walk · bike

Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.

The remembered names nearby

• Sculpted by Te Pani Trust in Partnership With Christchurch, 157 m away · Sculpted by Te Pani Trust in partnership with Christchurch City Council 2004 · 2009

Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.

What gets reported here

• Park - General Request, 3
• General Request, 2
• Dumped Rubbish, 2
• Pavement - Damaged, 1
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 1
• Fallen Tree, 1

Photographed here 10 on record

more photographs
on the Waimairi Beach wall →

What’s on record

• Dumped Rubbish, 6 Feb 2026 Lots of bottles and broken glass in car park and Waimairi Beach. Near surf club North. Dangerous
• Dumped Rubbish, 10 Jun 2025 Domestic rubbish by pump station in Broad park
• Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 6 Nov 2024 KAEPE has been to Waimairi Beach recently.
• General Request, 2 Nov 2024 Larnach St beach access bolt sticking up could injure someone
• Park - General Request, 22 Sept 2024 Bench seat on the dunes near Waimairi Surf club is missing built up ground or a deck below the seat. Due to erosion etc the bench seat is in
• General Request, 16 Jun 2024 Path along Broad Park requires a new layer of crusher dust to lift the surface up and to rid the path of puddles
• Park - General Request, 17 Mar 2024 The board walk at this car park has ended up at quite a dangerous angle. Hard to access beach due to hand rails being ineffective height an
• Park - General Request, 13 Mar 2024 The track onto the beach again!!! PEEPS keep coming to fix but it’s a waste of time and effort Please if you don’t want to spend money just
• Fallen Tree, 16 Feb 2024 Dead branch in middle garden of Waimairi park/Broad park
• Pavement - Damaged, 4 Feb 2024 Difficult to walk on because of the angle

Elsewhere on Beach Road

• 1 Beach Road, 45 reports
• 10 Beach Road, 38 reports
• 7 Beach Road, 8 reports
• 2 Beach Road, 4 reports
• 16 Beach Road, 3 reports
• 4 Beach Road, 2 reports
• 16a Beach Road, 2 reports
• 16A Beach Road, 2 reports

The civic layer

This ground votes in Coastal ward, the Coastal-Burwood-Linwood 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.