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Colombo Street

1 council report at 1 address on Colombo Street, Belfast, on record since May 2025.

1 report1 address1 day reported onfrom the air, then5,416 documents carry the name

Where it runs

351 Colombo Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Colombo Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colombo Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colombo Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colombo 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 numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Colombo Street, 5,416 in total; the 12 earliest:

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street, relayed, not verified.

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Colombo Street?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Colombo Street?

1 report at 1 address, most often rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Colombo Street first reported on?

2025, the record covers 1 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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