601 Bower Avenue
4 council reports since March 2024, 4 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, 16 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha · playground, 57 pieces
- Bower Avenue Landscape Reserve, 220 m to the edge
- Monterey Reserve, 333 m to the edge
- Arthur Adcock Memorial Reserve, 496 m to the edge · Sports ground · 4 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The bus nearby
- Queenspark, 331 m away · route 7
- Queenspark, 344 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, 157 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 4 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1 Jan 2025
Park - General Request, 14 Apr 2024 Since the rubbish bin was removed piles of dog poo bags are left at the car park and around Bottle Lake. Some poor Council employee has to p
Litter, 9 Apr 2024 Dog poo left where rubbish bin once stood. We need this bin re-installed so people using the forest and tracks can put their dogs poo in. R
Rubbish and Bins - General, 8 Mar 2024 Someone has stolen the much-used rubbish bin which was at the Bower Ave entrance to Bottle Lake forest park. It almost looks as though it w
Elsewhere on Bower Avenue
- 570 Bower Avenue, 30 reports
- 562A Bower Avenue, 17 reports
- 574 Bower Avenue, 4 reports
- 572 Bower Avenue, 3 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
4 council reports on record since March 2024, most often rubbish and bins - general (1), park - general request (1), litter (1).
Waimairi Beach, Christchurch, on Bower Avenue.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Broadhaven Reserve, 16 m to its edge, 4 ha.



