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Cotterill Street

54 reports at 25 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 49 separate days somebody filed something about it.

54 reports25 addresses49 days reported onfrom the air, then23 documents carry the namethe 1306th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

16 Cotterill Street, 7 reports1 Cotterill Street, 5 reports23A Cotterill Street, 4 reports16A Cotterill Street, 4 reports15A Cotterill Street, 4 reports12 Cotterill Street, 4 reports9 Cotterill Street, 3 reports21B Cotterill Street, 3 reports17B Cotterill Street, 3 reports31 Cotterill Street, 2 reports8A Cotterill Street, 1 report8 Cotterill Street, 1 report38 Cotterill Street, 1 report35 Cotterill Street, 1 report34 Cotterill Street, 1 report30 Cotterill Street, 1 report3/16 Cotterill Street, 1 report27 Cotterill Street, 1 report26 Cotterill Street, 1 report22A Cotterill Street, 1 report20–22 Cotterill Street, 1 report19B Cotterill Street, 1 report14 Cotterill Street, 1 report13-17 Cotterill Street, 1 report12C Cotterill Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Cotterill Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cotterill Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cotterill Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cotterill 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. 23 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Disraeli Reserve footbridge · 120 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cotterill Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

Its file in the papers

Papers Past records that surfaced when the archive searched for the street’s name, they answered the search; whether they are about this street is a reader’s call, at the link.

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cotterill Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cotterill Street?

54 reports at 25 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (35), roads & footpaths (6), graffiti & vandalism (5).

When was Cotterill Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 49 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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