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Spencer Street

122 reports at 35 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 104 separate days somebody filed something about it.

122 reports35 addresses104 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then51 documents carry the namethe 673rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Spencer Street, 15 reports48 Spencer Street, 12 reports70 Spencer Street, 9 reports88 Spencer Street, 7 reports77 Spencer Street, 7 reports16 Spencer Street, 6 reports44 Spencer Street, 5 reports34 Spencer Street, 5 reports74A Spencer Street, 4 reports61 Spencer Street, 4 reports6 Spencer Street, 4 reports21 Spencer Street, 4 reports9 Spencer Street, 3 reports40 Spencer Street, 3 reports39 Spencer Street, 3 reports36 Spencer Street, 3 reports13 Spencer Street, 3 reports84 Spencer Street, 2 reports49 Spencer Street, 2 reports42 Spencer Street, 2 reports33 Spencer Street, 2 reports23 Spencer Street, 2 reports20A Spencer Street, 2 reports14B Spencer Street, 2 reports82 Spencer Street, 1 report81 Spencer Street, 1 report75 Spencer Street, 1 report74a Spencer Street, 1 report68 Spencer Street, 1 report50 Spencer Street, 1 report41 Spencer Street, 1 report40A Spencer Street, 1 report29 Spencer Street, 1 report21A Spencer Street, 1 report20B Spencer Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Spencer Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Addington.

From the air, then

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

On the register

On foot, Church, gaol and the workshops walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 51 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

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 · 7 m away Addington Park footbridge · 14 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Spencer Street in 10 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Road Signage, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Spencer Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Spencer Street?

122 reports at 35 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (35), rubbish & dumping (25), roads & footpaths (23).

When was Spencer Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 104 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Spencer Street?

Dwelling and Setting.

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