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Collins Street

129 reports at 24 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 110 separate days somebody filed something about it.

129 reports24 addresses110 days reported onfrom the air, then119 documents carry the namethe 632nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Collins Street, 32 reports6 Collins Street, 16 reports47 Collins Street, 9 reports50 Collins Street, 8 reports49 Collins Street, 8 reports9 Collins Street, 7 reports7 Collins Street, 6 reports31 Collins Street, 6 reports26A Collins Street, 6 reports56 Collins Street, 4 reports38 Collins Street, 4 reports24 Collins Street, 4 reports56A Collins Street, 3 reports21 Collins Street, 3 reports8 Collins Street, 2 reports35 Collins Street, 2 reports28 Collins Street, 2 reports52–56 Collins Street, 1 report44 Collins Street, 1 report40 Collins Street, 1 report20 Collins Street, 1 report18A Collins Street, 1 report16 Collins Street, 1 report10 Collins Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Collins Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Collins Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Collins Street 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 addresses on it

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 119 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 1 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Collins Street in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 2 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Park - General Request, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Collins Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Collins Street?

129 reports at 24 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (44), graffiti & vandalism (25), roads & footpaths (24).

When was Collins Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 110 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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