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Breens Road

110 reports at 55 addresses in Bishopdale, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 97 separate days somebody filed something about it.

110 reports 55 addresses97 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 716th 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 Breens Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Bishopdale.

From the air, then

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

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

Breens 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, 38 reports
Roads & footpaths, 26 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 20 reports
Trees & parks, 12 reports
Water & drains, 9 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2018, 2 reports
2019, 6 reports
2020, 8 reports
2021, 7 reports
2022, 13 reports
2023, 25 reports
2024, 4 reports
2025, 22 reports

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.

Breens Intermediate, Intermediate · decile 7 · EQI 443 · roll 274

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Breens Road in 13 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 5 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Breens Road & Harewood Road, 31 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photo

Pothole, a report photo

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Accessibility, a report photo

Pothole, a report photo

Dumped Rubbish, a report photo

Damaged Road, a report photo

more photographs
on the Bishopdale wall →

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Breens Road?

In Bishopdale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Breens Road?

110 reports at 55 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (38), roads & footpaths (26), graffiti & vandalism (20).

When was Breens Road first reported on?

2015, the record covers 97 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Breens Road?

Breens Road and Harewood Road, 31 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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