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Wise Street

72 reports at 18 addresses in Addington, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 60 separate days somebody filed something about it.

72 reports18 addresses60 days reported onfrom the air, then48 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1100th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

24 Wise Street, 17 reports14 Wise Street, 12 reports21 Wise Street, 8 reports1/17 Wise Street, 7 reports3D Wise Street, 4 reports15 Wise Street, 4 reports9 Wise Street, 3 reports8 Wise Street, 2 reports6E Wise Street, 2 reports6 Wise Street, 2 reports3C Wise Street, 2 reports3A Wise Street, 2 reports17 Wise Street, 2 reports7 Wise Street, 1 report3F Wise Street, 1 report3B Wise Street, 1 report2/17 Wise Street, 1 report17 WISE STREET, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wise Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wise Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wise Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wise 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. 48 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Wise Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wise Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPothole, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Addington wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wise Street?

In Addington, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wise Street?

72 reports at 18 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (33), roads & footpaths (14), rubbish & dumping (13).

When was Wise Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 60 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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