Birch Street
13 reports at 6 addresses in Bexley, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 13 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Birch Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Bexley.
From the air, then
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
- 4 Birch Street, 8 reports
- 52 Birch Street, 1 report
- 36 Birch Street, 1 report
- 3 Birch Street, 1 report
- 16 Birch Street, 1 report
- 11A Birch Street, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 4 reports
- Trees & parks, 4 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 3 reports
- Water & drains, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 1 report
- 2022, 3 reports
- 2023, 3 reports
- 2024, 2 reports
- 2025, 2 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 12 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Timaru Herald, 22 December 1899)
· Papers Past,
…punched to any gauge wire--plain black galvanized and barbed posts heart tot n1 and black birch stakes split and sawn 8p totara and birch stratners broadieaf and totara sawn or split timber direct fro…
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
- Flooding, 4 Birch Street,
- Park - General Request, 11A Birch St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 16 Birch St,
- Fallen Tree, 4 Birch Street,
- Street Light Outage, 4 Birch Street,
- Pavement - General, 36 Birch Street,
- Pavement - General, 4 Birch Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 4 Birch Street,
- Vandalism - General, 4 Birch Street,
- Trees - General, 4 Birch Street,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 3 Birch Street,
- Pavement - Damaged, 4 Birch Street,
- Rubbish/Recycling, 52 Birch Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Bexley, Christchurch, New Zealand.
13 reports at 6 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (4), trees & parks (4), rubbish & dumping (3).
2017, the record covers 13 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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