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Bower Avenue

346 council reports at 87 addresses on Bower Avenue, Parklands, on record since March 2017.

346 reports87 addresses274 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 181st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

601 Bower Avenue, 156 reports574 Bower Avenue, 28 reports552 Bower Avenue, 13 reports459 Bower Avenue, 7 reports401 Bower Avenue, 7 reports399 Bower Avenue, 6 reports562A Bower Avenue, 4 reports554 Bower Avenue, 4 reports454 Bower Avenue, 4 reports402 Bower Avenue, 4 reports574-570 Bower Avenue, 3 reports548 Bower Avenue, 3 reports541 Bower Avenue, 3 reports537 Bower Avenue, 3 reports495 Bower Avenue, 3 reports490 Bower Avenue, 3 reports449 Bower Avenue, 3 reports409 Bower Avenue, 3 reports397 Bower Avenue, 3 reports396A Bower Avenue, 3 reports568 Bower Avenue, 2 reports556 Bower Avenue, 2 reports539 Bower Avenue, 2 reports497 Bower Avenue, 2 reports488 Bower Avenue, 2 reports478A Bower Avenue, 2 reports472 Bower Avenue, 2 reports463 Bower Avenue, 2 reports461 Bower Avenue, 2 reports460 Bower Avenue, 2 reports448 Bower Avenue, 2 reports439 Bower Avenue, 2 reports438 Bower Avenue, 2 reports417 Bower Avenue, 2 reports405 Bower Avenue, 2 reports391 Bower Avenue, 2 reports572 Bower Avenue, 1 report570 Bower Avenue, 1 report566 Bower Avenue, 1 report558 Bower Avenue, 1 report550R Bower Avenue, 1 report550 Bower Avenue, 1 report547 Bower Avenue, 1 report544 Bower Avenue, 1 report536 Bower Avenue, 1 report535 Bower Avenue, 1 report531 Bower Avenue, 1 report526 Bower Avenue, 1 report517 Bower Avenue, 1 report510 Bower Avenue, 1 report501–541 Bower Avenue, 1 report500 Bower Avenue, 1 report499 Bower Avenue, 1 report496 Bower Avenue, 1 report493 Bower Avenue, 1 report492 Bower Avenue, 1 report487 Bower Avenue, 1 report485 Bower Avenue, 1 report482 Bower Avenue, 1 report478 Bower Avenue, 1 report476 Bower Avenue, 1 report469A Bower Avenue, 1 report468 Bower Avenue, 1 report466 Bower Avenue, 1 report463A Bower Avenue, 1 report462 Bower Avenue, 1 report458 Bower Avenue, 1 report455 Bower Avenue, 1 report451-455 Bower Avenue, 1 report450 Bower Avenue, 1 report446 Bower Avenue, 1 report444 Bower Avenue, 1 report441 Bower Avenue, 1 report432 Bower Avenue, 1 report429-445 Bower Avenue, 1 report429 Bower Avenue, 1 report423 Bower Avenue, 1 report422A Bower Avenue, 1 report415 Bower Avenue, 1 report413 Bower Avenue, 1 report412 Bower Avenue, 1 report411 Bower Avenue, 1 report404 Bower Avenue, 1 report398 Bower Avenue, 1 report395A Bower Avenue, 1 report393a Bower Avenue, 1 report391–393 Bower Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Bower Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Parklands.

From the air, then

Bower Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bower Avenue from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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 numbered spots 87

and the other 27 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

2026 was still in progress when this page was drawn and is left off.

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Bower Avenue, 6 in total; the 5 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Bower Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bower Avenue in 15 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Parklands wall →

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bower Avenue?

In Parklands, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bower Avenue?

346 reports at 87 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (92), rubbish & dumping (88), trees & parks (84).

When was Bower Avenue first reported on?

2017, the record covers 274 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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