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Sir William Pickering Drive

62 reports at 27 addresses in Burnside, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 54 separate days somebody filed something about it.

62 reports27 addresses54 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the name8 businessesthe 1204th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

33 Sir William Pickering Drive, 8 reports15 Sir William Pickering Drive, 8 reports9 Sir William Pickering Drive, 7 reports6A Sir William Pickering Drive, 5 reports35 Sir William Pickering Drive, 5 reports10 Sir William Pickering Drive, 4 reports49 Sir William Pickering Drive, 3 reports4/49 Sir William Pickering Drive, 2 reports20 Sir William Pickering Drive, 2 reports6H Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report6D Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report66 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report61 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report6 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report41 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report36 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report30 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report28 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report27 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report19 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report17C Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report17B Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report17 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report14 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report11E Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report11 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report10-14 Sir William Pickering Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Sir William Pickering Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sir William Pickering Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sir William Pickering 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

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

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

The businesses on it, 8

Premises whose address in the directory is Sir William Pickering Drive, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avice Hill Reserve shelter · 127 m away Avice Hill Reserve shelter · 139 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Sir William Pickering Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody 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.

As it was reported

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoFlooding, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photo more photographs
on the Burnside wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sir William Pickering Drive?

In Burnside, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sir William Pickering Drive?

62 reports at 27 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (23), water & drains (15), trees & parks (11).

When was Sir William Pickering Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 54 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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