Breezes Road

120 reports at 7 addresses in Bexley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 98 separate days somebody filed something about it.

120 reports 7 addresses98 days reported onfrom the air, then 34 documents carry the namethe 707th 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 Breezes Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Bexley.

From the air, then

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

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

Breezes 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 →

The addresses on it

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 101 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 13 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
Roads & footpaths, 2 reports
Trees & parks, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2017, 1 report
2018, 3 reports
2019, 1 report
2020, 5 reports
2021, 5 reports
2022, 11 reports
2023, 19 reports
2024, 11 reports
2025, 35 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 34 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 17 September 1898) · Papers Past, 17 Sept 1898
…37 links by 200 links 30 house addington 100 eighth-acre onslow street fenced 85 5 acrea breezes road 17 per acre f w rutland opposite ar magh street bridge 2406 apples 2d oranges pines mandarins pas…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 30 March 1901) · Papers Past, 30 Mar 1901
…planted fruit trees square house 4 rooms plastered iron roof washhouse as phalt paths 275 breezes road just off new brighton tram line i acres land 4x 10 chains fenced with shed 6x�� feet 30 the lot c…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 07 September 1901) · Papers Past, 7 Sept 1901
…al site or jptofitafcle ior speculative subdivision 51 acres 5 chains by 10 chains corner breezes road and flemington tram road alongside mr mchafe residence fully planted c j marshall 49 cathedral sq…
Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 12 May 1906) · Papers Past, 12 May 1906
…or sale cockerels black and buff or pingtons white leghorns best laying strain humphreys breezes road near tram 4937 17kr sale this property at s-andwich road beckenham house of 3 large rooms consist…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 7 (Star, 23 May 1906) · Papers Past, 23 May 1906
…nly 700 marlbro street ricoarton good bulding alounent containing half an-acre fenced 130 breezes road near new brighton trarniine 9 acres fenced and subdivided inio paddocks and orchard house of 5 ro…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 28 May 1906) · Papers Past, 28 May 1906
…ly 700 marlbro street ricqarton good bulding allotment containing half an-acre fenced 130 breezes road near new brighten tramline 9 acres fenced and subdivided into paddocks and orchard house of 5 rob…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 02 June 1906) · Papers Past, 2 Jun 1906
…y 700 marlbro street riccarton good building allotment containing half an-acre fenced 130 breezes road near new brigmon tramline 9 acres fenced and subdivided into paddocks and orchard hotufce of 5 ro…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 08 June 1906) · Papers Past, 8 Jun 1906
…only 700 ta-ro cxreex ucoaiion good uui-ding alotment containing half ai-acit itiicea 130 breezes road near new brighton tramline 9 acres fenced ahd subdvided into paddocks and orchard house oi 5 ooms…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 11 June 1906) · Papers Past, 11 Jun 1906
…700 marlbro street riccarton good building allotment containing half an-acte fenced jei3o breezes road near new brighton tramline 9 acres fenced ahd subdivided into paddocks and orchard house of 5 roo…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 12 June 1906) · Papers Past, 12 Jun 1906
…700 marlbro street ricoarton good buiiding allotment containing hali an-acre fenced jbi3o breezes road near new brighton tramline 3 acres fenced and subdivided into paddocks and orchard house oi 5 roo…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 14 June 1906) · Papers Past, 14 Jun 1906
…r-acre well washhou��e ec i j 7fl 1 bor bildin aliotmpmt copuppmm lulf an-aore fenced 130 breezes road near new bwon win-9 acres fenced and subdivided into kscta and orchard house of 5 rooms sstdly tr…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 23 June 1906) · Papers Past, 23 Jun 1906
…y 700 marlbro street riccarton good building allotment containing half an-acre fenoed 180 breezes road near new brighton tianiliiie 9 acres fenced and subdivided into paddocks and orchard hous of fi r…

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Breezes Road in 20 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Breezes Road & Pages Road, 99 crashes pinned to the pairing, 1 killed.

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.