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Waratah Street

42 reports at 31 addresses in Avondale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.

42 reports31 addresses40 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 1530th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

74 Waratah Street, 4 reports75 Waratah Street, 3 reports72 Waratah Street, 3 reports33 Waratah Street, 3 reports78 Waratah Street, 2 reports43 Waratah Street, 2 reports99 Waratah Street, 1 report90 Waratah Street, 1 report86 Waratah Street, 1 report79 Waratah Street, 1 report76 Waratah Street, 1 report73 Waratah Street, 1 report68 Waratah Street, 1 report67 Waratah Street, 1 report66A Waratah Street, 1 report66 Waratah Street, 1 report63 Waratah Street, 1 report61 Waratah Street, 1 report57B Waratah Street, 1 report55 Waratah Street, 1 report53 Waratah Street, 1 report49 Waratah Street, 1 report48 Waratah Street, 1 report47 Waratah Street, 1 report41 Waratah Street, 1 report39 Waratah Street, 1 report37 Waratah Street, 1 report24 Waratah Street, 1 report18 Waratah Street, 1 report16 Waratah Street, 1 report10 Waratah Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avondale Park ramp · 132 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land ramp · 139 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land ramp · 140 m away Avon Corridor 10 Rrz Land boardwalk · 140 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waratah Street in 1 crash 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoPothole, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAnimal - Domestic, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoSediment - Construction, a report photoLitter, a report photoNoise - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Avondale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Waratah Street?

In Avondale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Waratah Street?

42 reports at 31 addresses, most often vehicles & parking (9), roads & footpaths (9), rubbish & dumping (6).

When was Waratah Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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