Picton Avenue
14 reports at 3 addresses in Addington, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Picton Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Addington.
From the air, then
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
- 14 Picton Avenue, 8 reports
- 11 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
- 1 Picton Avenue, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 9 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 5 reports
Year by year
- 2019, 1 report
- 2021, 2 reports
- 2022, 2 reports
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 1 report
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 51 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 17 August 1903)
· Papers Past,
…ir amyes to mr beauchamp one acre land tancred street m riordan to thomas mill block jand picton avenue chas huhton to mr bultitude blook land lower ricarton geo simpson to a burn two 5-roomed housei…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 01 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…areas including west belt i 500 ter acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each 1 deans street 5 acres 200 per acre 00trtt street only 3 chains from colombo streptvalua…
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 08 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 200 per acre armagh street only 3 chains from colombo street valuab…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 12 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagiey street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 200 per acre armagh stkeet only 8 chains from colombo street valuab…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 26 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…ous areas including west belt 500 per acre hagey street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estae 5 acres 210 per acre armaixji sjiw-ikl 1 only cnains irom colombo street val…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 28 July 1905)
· Papers Past,
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 eaoh ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per aore armagh street only 8 chains from colombo street valuab…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 04 August 1905)
· Papers Past,
…areas including rweert belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per acre armagh street only 3 ctauns from colombo street valuab…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 09 August 1905)
· Papers Past,
…ous areas includingwest belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 475 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per acre akmagh street only 8 chains from colombo street valua…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 30 August 1905)
· Papers Past,
…ous areas includingwest belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 eaoh papanui road and just ofl several nice residential properties in this favourite b locali…
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 06 September 1905)
· Papers Past,
…us areas including west belt 500 per ftfe hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 4575 eaoh papanui road and jtut l off-ev-ral nice residential properties in this favourite local…
- Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 September 1905)
· Papers Past,
…ous a b including west belt 500 per acre hftgley street 2 quarters 95 e-aoh aw street 110 picton avenue 75 eaoh papanui road and just off several nice residential properties in this favourite locality…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 September 1905)
· Papers Past,
…f tbrisu including-weat belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 25 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each papanui road and just ofi several nice residential properties in thisavorarite cashmere…
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The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Picton Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Picton Avenue in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Picton Avenue & Riccarton Road, 52 crashes pinned to the pairing.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 Picton Ave,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 11 Picton Ave,
- Pavement - Damaged, 1 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 11 Picton Avenue,
- Pavement - Damaged, 11 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Poles and Signage - General, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 11 Picton Avenue,
- Road Signage, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 14 Picton Avenue,
- Graffiti, 14 Picton Ave,
Questions, answered briefly
In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.
14 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (9), roads & footpaths (5).
2019, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Picton Avenue and Riccarton Road, 52 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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