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Banks Avenue

32 reports at 14 addresses in Burwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 30 separate days somebody filed something about it.

32 reports14 addresses30 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the namethe 1845th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Banks Avenue, 7 reports7B Banks Avenue, 4 reports5 Banks Avenue, 3 reports17 Banks Avenue, 3 reports15 Banks Avenue, 3 reports9A Banks Avenue, 2 reports7 Banks Avenue, 2 reports32 Banks Avenue, 2 reports7A Banks Avenue, 1 report5-9 Banks Avenue, 1 report27 Banks Avenue, 1 report26 Banks Avenue, 1 report22 Banks Avenue, 1 report11 Banks Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Banks Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Banks Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Banks Avenue 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 named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Dudley Creek stream · 5 m away Dudley Creek Riverbank road bridge · 95 m away

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

Sewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photo more photographs
on the Burwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Banks Avenue?

In Burwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Banks Avenue?

32 reports at 14 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), water & drains (5), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Banks Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 30 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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