Coastal ward
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor, centred on New Brighton, Parklands, North New Brighton, South New Brighton and 7 more. Its community board is Coastal-Burwood-Linwood.
The boundary
The council’s own electoral boundary in ink; the suburb outlines inside it. A suburb belongs where its centre falls, an address near an edge can sit in the neighbouring ward.
The suburbs inside it
A suburb counts where its centre falls, the ward edges the council drew don’t always follow suburb lines. Population shows for the 8 the census names.
The reports on its ground
33,437 council reports filed under the suburbs it centres on, most often Graffiti & vandalism and Rubbish & dumping, 27,470 with a photograph. The newest:
The crash record
515 crashes that hurt somebody on record across the suburbs it centres on, 13 people killed, 126 seriously hurt. The corner that keeps appearing: Marshland Road at Belfast Road, 13 injury crashes. A crash counts under the suburb its point landed in.
How long the council takes here
The median council work order in Coastal ward took 3 days to resolve, th fastest of 16 wards, on the jobs the council has finished. The slowest tenth waited 3 months or longer. 1,435 tickets are open in the ward now, the oldest filed 8 Oct 2018.
MyCouncilTicket, the council’s own work-order stream, 45,369 finished jobs counted inside this ward’s boundary. A median counts only closed work; what is still open is named as open. The ticket roll · the whole city’s fix times.
Who decides here
Celeste Donovan holds the seat, Independent, declared 16 October 2025. The ward enrolled 19,005 electors; 7,753 papers came back, 40.8% of them. The council’s elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The Coastal-Burwood-Linwood community board is the local layer under it. The mechanics: how community boards work · how councils work · how local elections run · what rates buy.
Questions, answered briefly
One of Christchurch City Council’s sixteen electoral wards, the ground that elects one councillor at each triennial election. This page counts the public record inside its boundary: 25,648 council reports across 11 suburbs.
New Brighton, Parklands, North New Brighton, South New Brighton, Brooklands, and 6 more, a suburb counts where its centre falls; ward edges don’t always follow suburb lines.
Coastal-Burwood-Linwood, the board the ward’s councillor also sits on.
Celeste Donovan (Independent), declared 16 October 2025. The council’s own elected-members list is the live record, a by-election can move the name between this site’s bakes.
The record behind this
The boundary comes from the council’s electoral layer, the same map the elections run on. The suburb list is a centre-point join, so a suburb that straddles a boundary counts under the ward its centre sits in; the suburb pages say the same from the other side. Report counts are the suburb records' own.
Every ward and board: /wards. This page as markdown: /wards/coastal.md.