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Portsmouth Street

216 reports at 36 addresses in Aranui, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 167 separate days somebody filed something about it.

216 reports36 addresses167 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name1 businessesthe 378th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Portsmouth Street, 44 reports48 Portsmouth Street, 38 reports34 Portsmouth Street, 27 reports38E Portsmouth Street, 13 reports38 Portsmouth Street, 12 reports16 Portsmouth Street, 9 reports52 Portsmouth Street, 7 reports36 Portsmouth Street, 7 reports5 Portsmouth Street, 5 reports4 Portsmouth Street, 5 reports8 Portsmouth Street, 4 reports6 Portsmouth Street, 4 reports26 Portsmouth Street, 4 reports1 Portsmouth Street, 4 reports51 Portsmouth Street, 3 reports18 Portsmouth Street, 3 reports14 Portsmouth Street, 3 reports43 Portsmouth Street, 2 reports33 Portsmouth Street, 2 reports23 Portsmouth Street, 2 reports15 Portsmouth Street, 2 reports13 Portsmouth Street, 2 reports7 Portsmouth Street, 1 report50 Portsmouth Street, 1 report4E Portsmouth Street, 1 report49-51 Portsmouth Street, 1 report47 Portsmouth Street, 1 report41 Portsmouth Street, 1 report39 Portsmouth Street, 1 report37 Portsmouth Street, 1 report35 Portsmouth Street, 1 report31 Portsmouth Street, 1 report3 Portsmouth Street, 1 report21 Portsmouth Street, 1 report19 Portsmouth Street, 1 report12 Portsmouth Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Portsmouth Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Portsmouth Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Portsmouth 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.

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

The businesses on it, 1

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Portsmouth Street in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Pavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Aranui wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Portsmouth Street?

In Aranui, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Portsmouth Street?

216 reports at 36 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (145), graffiti & vandalism (53), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Portsmouth Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 167 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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