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Kipling Street

70 reports at 26 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 62 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports26 addresses62 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 1072nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

6 Kipling Street, 6 reports14 Kipling Street, 6 reports31 Kipling Street, 5 reports14B Kipling Street, 5 reports9 Kipling Street, 4 reports5 Kipling Street, 4 reports26 Kipling Street, 4 reports2 Kipling Street, 4 reports38 Kipling Street, 3 reports20 Kipling Street, 3 reports18A Kipling Street, 3 reports13A Kipling Street, 3 reports13 Kipling Street, 3 reports4 Kipling Street, 2 reports25 Kipling Street, 2 reports22 Kipling Street, 2 reports18 Kipling Street, 2 reports5/26 Kipling Street, 1 report5-7 Kipling Street, 1 report5-13 Kipling Street, 1 report34B Kipling Street, 1 report30 Kipling Street, 1 report27 Kipling Street, 1 report21 Kipling Street, 1 report17 Kipling Street, 1 report10 Kipling Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Kipling Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kipling Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kipling 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.

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Kipling Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Kipling Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Kipling Street?

70 reports at 26 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (35), water & drains (14), graffiti & vandalism (8).

When was Kipling Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 62 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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