# Street Light Outage, 153 Purchas St, Canterbury, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand

Christchurch · filed 19 February 2026 · report 7768894
https://www.chch.live/report/7768894

> The streetlights in the portion of Purchas st between barbados street and Geraldine st have not been working for some months now. This part of the street is pitch black at night. Can we please have our streetlights back? Thanks.

*The reporter’s own words, a public report relayed, not verified or endorsed.*

## Also at this address (one of 2)
- [Damaged Road](https://www.chch.live/report/5283361), 18 Oct 2024
- [The address’s whole record](https://www.chch.live/edgeware/153-purchas-street)

## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Lighting, 2 m away · resolved 8 Jul 2026, took 5 months, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Signs, 52 m away · resolved 12 Jun 2026, took 4 months, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Potholes, 11 m away · resolved 1 Mar 2025, took 4 months
- Flooding, 14 m away · resolved 27 Dec 2024, took 21 hours
- Graffiti on Utility box, 16 m away · resolved 4 Jun 2021, took 6 hours
- Flooding, 16 m away · resolved 24 Nov 2022, took 5 days
- Water Leak, 16 m away · resolved 28 Jul 2023, took 46 hours
- Potholes, 16 m away · resolved 5 Sept 2023, took 6 weeks
MyCouncilTicket is a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/street-lights
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/edgeware/purchas-street
The address: https://www.chch.live/edgeware/153-purchas-street
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/edgeware
The attached photograph: https://snapsendsolve-reports.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/images/07768894/public/1_6g5cpj5ofnna.jpg
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.51847999917409&lon=172.6469499999054

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=7768894