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Fairfield Avenue

355 reports at 65 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 262 separate days somebody filed something about it.

355 reports65 addresses262 days reported onfrom the air, then78 documents carry the namethe 197th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

72 Fairfield Avenue, 47 reports47 Fairfield Avenue, 40 reports33 Fairfield Avenue, 19 reports68B Fairfield Avenue, 14 reports80 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports64 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports48 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports39 Fairfield Avenue, 11 reports68A Fairfield Avenue, 10 reports69 Fairfield Avenue, 9 reports54 Fairfield Avenue, 9 reports29 Fairfield Avenue, 9 reports77 Fairfield Avenue, 8 reports73A Fairfield Avenue, 8 reports67 Fairfield Avenue, 8 reports43 Fairfield Avenue, 8 reports81 Fairfield Avenue, 6 reports76 Fairfield Avenue, 6 reports47–51 Fairfield Avenue, 6 reports18 Fairfield Avenue, 6 reports53 Fairfield Avenue, 5 reports52 Fairfield Avenue, 5 reports36A Fairfield Avenue, 5 reports86 Fairfield Avenue, 4 reports68 Fairfield Avenue, 4 reports66 Fairfield Avenue, 4 reports63 Fairfield Avenue, 4 reports17 Fairfield Avenue, 4 reports84 Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports48A Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports37 Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports30 Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports18A Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports14 Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports12 Fairfield Avenue, 3 reports76A Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports75 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports73 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports70 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports61 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports58 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports49 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports41 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports32 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports17D Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports16 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports13 Fairfield Avenue, 2 reports84A Fairfield Avenue, 1 report82 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report79 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report76B Fairfield Avenue, 1 report7 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report65-81 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report64A Fairfield Avenue, 1 report56 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report51 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report48B Fairfield Avenue, 1 report40 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report35 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report25 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report24 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report21 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report2/80 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report2-54 Fairfield Avenue, 1 report17A Fairfield Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Fairfield Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Fairfield Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Fairfield Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Fairfield 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 addresses on it

and the other 5 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 78 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.

Baxters Drain shelter · 3 m away Baxters Drain set of steps · 9 m away Baxters Drain set of steps · 11 m away Baxters Drain shelter · 15 m away Baxters Drain shelter · 46 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Fairfield Avenue in 7 crashes 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPothole, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Fairfield Avenue?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Fairfield Avenue?

355 reports at 65 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (187), graffiti & vandalism (54), water & drains (38).

When was Fairfield Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 262 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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