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William Nicholls Drive

47 reports at 33 addresses in Belfast, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 38 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports33 addresses38 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 1586th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

39 William Nicholls Drive, 4 reports2 William Nicholls Drive, 4 reports2R William Nicholls Drive, 3 reports67 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports60 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports53 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports4–12 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports47 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports18 William Nicholls Drive, 2 reports8 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report7 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report69 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report58 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report56E William Nicholls Drive, 1 report56 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report55 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report51 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report49 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report45 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report43R William Nicholls Drive, 1 report41–43 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report4 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report35 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report30R William Nicholls Drive, 1 report3-13 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report29 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report25 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report23 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report16 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report13 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report12R William Nicholls Drive, 1 report12 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report11 William Nicholls Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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.

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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is William Nicholls Drive?

In Belfast, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on William Nicholls Drive?

47 reports at 33 addresses, most often trees & parks (31), rubbish & dumping (6), roads & footpaths (4).

When was William Nicholls Drive first reported on?

2020, the record covers 38 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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