chch.live a street, in depth

Arlington Street

42 reports at 20 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 40 separate days somebody filed something about it.

42 reports20 addresses40 days reported onfrom the air, then24 documents carry the namethe 1535th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

62 Arlington Street, 5 reports60 Arlington Street, 5 reports17 Arlington Street, 4 reports25 Arlington Street, 3 reports19 Arlington Street, 3 reports7 Arlington Street, 2 reports42 Arlington Street, 2 reports39 Arlington Street, 2 reports37 Arlington Street, 2 reports27 Arlington Street, 2 reports15 Arlington Street, 2 reports1 Arlington Street, 2 reports58A Arlington Street, 1 report53 Arlington Street, 1 report5 Arlington Street, 1 report41B Arlington Street, 1 report3 Arlington Street, 1 report2E Arlington Street, 1 report24 Arlington Street, 1 report20 Arlington Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Arlington Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Burnside.

From the air, then

Arlington Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Arlington Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Arlington Street 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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 24 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPothole, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Burnside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Arlington Street?

In Burnside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Arlington Street?

42 reports at 20 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (12), trees & parks (12), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was Arlington Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 40 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Burnside → · This street as a feed →