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Cowes Street

26 reports at 16 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 20 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports16 addresses20 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 2315th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Cowes Street, 4 reports4 Cowes Street, 3 reports30 Cowes Street, 3 reports62 Cowes Street, 2 reports58 Cowes Street, 2 reports5 Cowes Street, 2 reports9 Cowes Street, 1 report60 Cowes Street, 1 report52 Cowes Street, 1 report48 Cowes Street, 1 report47 Cowes Street, 1 report38 Cowes Street, 1 report37 Cowes Street, 1 report3 Cowes Street, 1 report23 Cowes Street, 1 report17 Cowes Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 124 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land ramp · 104 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land boardwalk · 116 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land ramp · 127 m away Amelia Rogers Reserve footbridge · 136 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cowes Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Water Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPothole, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Avondale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cowes Street?

In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cowes Street?

26 reports at 16 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (13), rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (4).

When was Cowes Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 20 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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