Mervyn Drive
133 reports at 23 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 113 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Mervyn Drive, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Avondale.
From the air, then
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
- 18 Mervyn Drive, 42 reports
- 29 Mervyn Drive, 25 reports
- 23 Mervyn Drive, 9 reports
- 18A Mervyn Drive, 8 reports
- 31 Mervyn Drive, 7 reports
- 25 Mervyn Drive, 5 reports
- 39 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 28 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 21 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 20 Mervyn Drive, 4 reports
- 15 Mervyn Drive, 3 reports
- 36 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 33 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 22 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 18-14 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 14 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 12 Mervyn Drive, 2 reports
- 39A Mervyn Drive, 1 report
- 35 Mervyn Drive, 1 report
- 27 Mervyn Drive, 1 report
- 19 Mervyn Drive, 1 report
- 11 Mervyn Drive, 1 report
- 10 Mervyn Drive, 1 report
What got reported
- Trees & parks, 44 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 40 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 34 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 7 reports
- Water & drains, 6 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
Year by year
- 2015, 5 reports
- 2016, 4 reports
- 2017, 4 reports
- 2018, 6 reports
- 2019, 4 reports
- 2020, 13 reports
- 2021, 12 reports
- 2022, 16 reports
- 2023, 16 reports
- 2024, 17 reports
- 2025, 20 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Basic services information for quake residents
· Radio New Zealand,
…ve 67 Hawke St, New Brighton Sumner Welfare Centre 17 Wiggins St, Sumner Avondale Park 16 Mervyn Drive, Avondale Cowles Stadium 220 Pages Rd, Bromley Humphreys Drive/Ferry Road 1091 Ferry Rd, Ferrymea…
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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Mervyn Drive in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 27 May 1941) · Evening Post,
- TODAY'S LIST (Evening Post, 30 May 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 26 June 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 July 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 09 July 1941) · Evening Post,
- FIRST LIST (Evening Post, 08 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- KILLED IN ACTION. (Evening Post, 29 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 31 July 1942) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. PERSONNEL REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 27 April 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Flooding, 18 Mervyn Drive,
- Park - General Request, 18 Mervyn Drive,
- Public Toilet, 18 Mervyn Drive,
- Accessibility, 18 Mervyn Drive,
- General Request, 27 Mervyn Drive,
- Accessibility, 12 Mervyn Dr,
- Dumped Rubbish, 18 Mervyn Dr,
- Dumped Rubbish, 14 Mervyn Dr,
- Park - General Request, 29 Mervyn Drive,
- Dumped Rubbish, 31 Mervyn Drive,
- Dumped Rubbish, 33 Mervyn Dr,
- Litter, 14 Mervyn Dr,
- Dumped Rubbish, 29 Mervyn Drive,
- Public Toilet, 29 Mervyn Drive,
- Public Toilet, 29 Mervyn Drive,
Questions, answered briefly
In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.
133 reports at 23 addresses, most often trees & parks (44), rubbish & dumping (40), graffiti & vandalism (34).
2015, the record covers 113 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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