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Ward Street

431 reports at 54 addresses in Addington, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 337 separate days somebody filed something about it.

431 reports54 addresses337 days reported onfrom the air, then208 documents carry the namethe 128th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

61 Ward Street, 177 reports63 Ward Street, 34 reports59 Ward Street, 21 reports30 Ward Street, 15 reports70 Ward Street, 12 reports26 Ward Street, 12 reports6 Ward Street, 10 reports66 Ward Street, 9 reports27 Ward Street, 9 reports16 Ward Street, 8 reports76 Ward Street, 7 reports53 Ward Street, 7 reports5 Ward Street, 7 reports42 Ward Street, 7 reports17 Ward Street, 7 reports64 Ward Street, 6 reports51 Ward Street, 6 reports8 Ward Street, 5 reports67 Ward Street, 5 reports45 Ward Street, 5 reports72 Ward Street, 4 reports31 Ward Street, 4 reports9 Ward Street, 3 reports52 Ward Street, 3 reports22 Ward Street, 3 reports20 Ward Street, 3 reports74 Ward Street, 2 reports62 Ward Street, 2 reports60 Ward Street, 2 reports58 Ward Street, 2 reports46B Ward Street, 2 reports41 Ward Street, 2 reports38 Ward Street, 2 reports37 Ward Street, 2 reports35 Ward Street, 2 reports32 Ward Street, 2 reports21 Ward Street, 2 reports18A Ward Street, 2 reports18 Ward Street, 2 reports14 Ward Street, 2 reports66-68 Ward Street, 1 report59-61 Ward Street, 1 report51A Ward Street, 1 report46 Ward Street, 1 report39 Ward Street, 1 report31A Ward Street, 1 report2/27 Ward Street, 1 report17B Ward Street, 1 report14C Ward Street, 1 report14B Ward Street, 1 report14A Ward Street, 1 report12 Ward Street, 1 report10 Ward Street, 1 report1/35 Ward Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ward Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ward Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ward Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ward 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. 208 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 open map’s record.

Jacksons Creek stream · a reported pin on the line

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ward Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoSediment - Construction, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ward Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ward Street?

431 reports at 54 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (360), water & drains (26), roads & footpaths (17).

When was Ward Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 337 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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