Main North Road

516 reports at 146 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 415 separate days somebody filed something about it.

516 reports 146 addresses415 days reported on4 on the register from the air, then then / now 114 documents carry the name 21 businessesthe 69th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Main North Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Belfast.

From the air, then

Main North Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Main North Road 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 →

Then and now

**Then**, 1925 · On the Main North Road from Christchurch last Friday

Now: Google Street View, 2026-01

The photograph names Main North Road in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Belfast Liquor Centre). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 86 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 152 reports
Roads & footpaths, 131 reports
Trees & parks, 100 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 57 reports
Water & drains, 45 reports
Everything else, 19 reports
Animals & pests, 7 reports
Vehicles & parking, 5 reports

Year by year

2016, 6 reports
2017, 8 reports
2019, 4 reports
2020, 33 reports
2021, 34 reports
2022, 47 reports
2023, 93 reports
2024, 109 reports
2025, 98 reports

On the register

Dwelling and Setting, 663 Main North Road
Dwelling and setting, Belfast School Master's House, 665 Main North Road
Kapuatohe Reserve, 665 Main North Road
St David's Church and Setting, 831 Main North Road

On foot, The village’s remains walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 114 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Otago Daily Times, 20 January 1868) · Papers Past, 20 Jan 1868
…which is qtiitc level situated within threo and a half rnilc of moeraki port frontage to main north road is well sheltered with good aspect a bush within one mile of the homestead the improvements co…

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Pūtahi Belfast School, Full Primary · decile 7 · EQI 458 · roll 453

The businesses on it, 21

Premises whose address in the directory is Main North Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 9 more whose address names it.

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.

Kā Pūtahi stream · a reported pin on the line Styx River stream · 1 m away Redwood Dancing Springs spring · 46 m away Ōtukaikino Wetland wetland · 60 m away Waimakariri River river · 84 m away Regents Park Reserve viewing platform · 7 m away Sheldon Park ramp · 13 m away unnamed ramp · 37 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv boardwalk · 48 m away Styx River Conservation Reserv shelter · 49 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Main North Road in 51 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 people killed, 8 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Main North Road & State Highway 74, 85 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.