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Somerset Crescent

17 reports at 7 addresses in Addington, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 13 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports7 addresses13 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2840th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Somerset Crescent, 6 reports62 Somerset Crescent, 4 reports57 Somerset Crescent, 2 reports41/53 Somerset Crescent, 2 reports31 Somerset Crescent, 1 report29 Somerset Crescent, 1 report19 Somerset Crescent, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Somerset Crescent from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Somerset Crescent from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Somerset Crescent 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

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Somerset Crescent?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Somerset Crescent?

17 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (7), rubbish & dumping (6), roads & footpaths (2).

When was Somerset Crescent first reported on?

2019, the record covers 13 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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