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Patten Street

73 reports at 35 addresses in Avonside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 64 separate days somebody filed something about it.

73 reports35 addresses64 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 1037th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

73 Patten Street, 8 reports68 Patten Street, 5 reports79 Patten Street, 4 reports74 Patten Street, 4 reports72 Patten Street, 4 reports5 Patten Street, 4 reports76 Patten Street, 3 reports66 Patten Street, 3 reports34A Patten Street, 3 reports34 Patten Street, 3 reports32 Patten Street, 3 reports24 Patten Street, 3 reports60 Patten Street, 2 reports53 Patten Street, 2 reports45 Patten Street, 2 reports9 Patten Street, 1 report75 Patten Street, 1 report65 Patten Street, 1 report64B Patten Street, 1 report62 Patten Street, 1 report6 Patten Street, 1 report58 Patten Street, 1 report57 Patten Street, 1 report50 Patten Street, 1 report49 Patten Street, 1 report44 Patten Street, 1 report40A Patten Street, 1 report40 Patten Street, 1 report36 Patten Street, 1 report35 Patten Street, 1 report30 Patten Street, 1 report28 Patten Street, 1 report27 Patten Street, 1 report26 Patten Street, 1 report23 Patten Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Patten Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Patten Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Patten 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Patten Street in 2 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

Dumped 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 photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoFlooding, a report photo more photographs
on the Avonside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Patten Street?

In Avonside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Patten Street?

73 reports at 35 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (42), graffiti & vandalism (20), water & drains (7).

When was Patten Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 64 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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