572 Bower Avenue
3 council reports since June 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 570 Bower Avenue, 30 reports on file.
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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
- Broadhaven Reserve, 49 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Bower Avenue Landscape Reserve, 163 m to the edge
- Monterey Reserve, 369 m to the edge
- Arthur Adcock Memorial Reserve, 471 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha
- Lamorna Reserve, 475 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Queenspark, 314 m away · route 7
- Queenspark, 326 m away · route 7
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- In Memory of Kem Jervous‑chenery 29 August 1930 — 8 October, 206 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF KEM JERVOUS‑CHENERY 29 AUGUST 1930 — 8 OCTOBER 2005 FOR HIS LONG AND DEDICATE
· 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
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 30 Jun 2026 These two cars have been parked here for the past 6 weeks, they are on the grass verge.
Abandoned Vehicle, 1 Aug 2025 This caravan is parked on side of road and has been parked there for at least 10-12 weeks… Can you please do something about this
Abandoned Vehicle, 3 Jun 2025 I believe this has been parked there and abandoned. There is a wheel clamp on. Nobody is ever around or in it , and only appears to have ma
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 570 Bower Avenue, 30 reports
- 562A Bower Avenue, 17 reports
- 601 Bower Avenue, 4 reports
- 574 Bower Avenue, 4 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.
Bower Avenue, the whole record → · Everything about Waimairi Beach → · 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
3 council reports on record since June 2025, most often abandoned vehicle (2), hazard, vehicle (1).
Waimairi Beach, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Broadhaven Reserve, 49 m to its edge, 4 ha.


