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Poulson Street

495 reports at 87 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 356 separate days somebody filed something about it.

495 reports87 addresses356 days reported onfrom the air, then68 documents carry the namethe 110th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Poulson Street, 36 reports71 Poulson Street, 24 reports43 Poulson Street, 22 reports78 Poulson Street, 19 reports76 Poulson Street, 17 reports84 Poulson Street, 16 reports80 Poulson Street, 14 reports90 Poulson Street, 13 reports89 Poulson Street, 13 reports85 Poulson Street, 13 reports77 Poulson Street, 13 reports22 Poulson Street, 12 reports100 Poulson Street, 12 reports81 Poulson Street, 11 reports63 Poulson Street, 11 reports104 Poulson Street, 11 reports40 Poulson Street, 9 reports36 Poulson Street, 9 reports124 Poulson Street, 9 reports96 Poulson Street, 8 reports83 Poulson Street, 8 reports75 Poulson Street, 8 reports72 Poulson Street, 8 reports6B Poulson Street, 8 reports112 Poulson Street, 8 reports62 Poulson Street, 7 reports59 Poulson Street, 7 reports26 Poulson Street, 7 reports108B Poulson Street, 7 reports21 Poulson Street, 6 reports95A Poulson Street, 5 reports92 Poulson Street, 5 reports57A Poulson Street, 5 reports57 Poulson Street, 5 reports103E Poulson Street, 5 reports99 Poulson Street, 4 reports97 Poulson Street, 4 reports7 Poulson Street, 4 reports50 Poulson Street, 4 reports3 Poulson Street, 4 reports116 Poulson Street, 4 reports105 Poulson Street, 4 reports86 Poulson Street, 3 reports67 Poulson Street, 3 reports48 Poulson Street, 3 reports46 Poulson Street, 3 reports35-43 Poulson Street, 3 reports28 Poulson Street, 3 reports24 Poulson Street, 3 reports2 Poulson Street, 3 reports12 Poulson Street, 3 reports108 Poulson Street, 3 reports92A Poulson Street, 2 reports79 Poulson Street, 2 reports57B Poulson Street, 2 reports44 Poulson Street, 2 reports38 Poulson Street, 2 reports32 Poulson Street, 2 reports18 Poulson Street, 2 reports120 Poulson Street, 2 reports115 Poulson Street, 2 reports113 Poulson Street, 2 reports112A Poulson Street, 2 reports97A Poulson Street, 1 report94 Poulson Street, 1 report93 Poulson Street, 1 report87-91 Poulson Street, 1 report82 Poulson Street, 1 report80-84 Poulson Street, 1 report7A Poulson Street, 1 report63-69 Poulson Street, 1 report63-67 Poulson Street, 1 report6 Poulson Street, 1 report5 Poulson Street, 1 report47 Poulson Street, 1 report45 Poulson Street, 1 report30 Poulson Street, 1 report20A Poulson Street, 1 report20 Poulson Street, 1 report2/100 Poulson Street, 1 report14 Poulson Street, 1 report114 Poulson Street, 1 report111 Poulson Street, 1 report11 Poulson Street, 1 report107 Poulson Street, 1 report102-104 Poulson Street, 1 report1/100 Poulson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Poulson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Poulson Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Poulson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Poulson 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

and the other 27 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. 68 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · 6 m away Addington Park footbridge · 97 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Poulson Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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

Damaged Street Light, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Poulson Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Poulson Street?

495 reports at 87 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (232), graffiti & vandalism (143), water & drains (41).

When was Poulson Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 356 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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