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Ballymena Drive

13 reports at 8 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

13 reports8 addresses12 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2967th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

23 Ballymena Drive, 4 reports5 Ballymena Drive, 2 reports25 Ballymena Drive, 2 reports27 Ballymena Drive, 1 report18 Ballymena Drive, 1 report17 Ballymena Drive, 1 report12 Ballymena Drive, 1 report1 Ballymena Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ballymena Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ballymena Drive from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ballymena Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ballymena Drive 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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ballymena Drive?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ballymena Drive?

13 reports at 8 addresses, most often trees & parks (8), graffiti & vandalism (3), water & drains (1).

When was Ballymena Drive first reported on?

2017, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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