New Brighton Road

979 reports at 208 addresses in Burwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 550 separate days somebody filed something about it.

979 reports 208 addresses550 days reported onfrom the air, then 136 documents carry the namethe 37th 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 New Brighton Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Burwood.

From the air, then

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

New Brighton Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

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

New Brighton 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

and the other 148 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 668 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 96 reports
Trees & parks, 86 reports
Roads & footpaths, 65 reports
Water & drains, 32 reports
Everything else, 22 reports
Animals & pests, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports

Year by year

2015, 9 reports
2016, 36 reports
2017, 91 reports
2018, 31 reports
2019, 27 reports
2020, 64 reports
2021, 48 reports
2022, 131 reports
2023, 140 reports
2024, 170 reports
2025, 146 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 136 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Local and General. (Star, 19 July 1873) · Papers Past, 19 Jul 1873
…raising funds with which to supplement the vote of the provincial council for opening the new brighton road to the sea beach knightstown mutual impbovement association it is in contemplation to give a…
Local and General. (Star, 23 October 1873) · Papers Past, 23 Oct 1873
…orked by clock-work and displays great skill and exactness of copy in the workmanship the new brighton road the contractors are progressing well with the formation of this road being now only 20 chain…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 25 April 1874) · Papers Past, 25 Apr 1874
…side north-east town belt between new brighton and stanmoiv roads apply to william knight new brighton road kxh g l beath co clothiers outfitters and prapebs are opening an immense stock of new winter…
Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 08 October 1874) · Papers Past, 8 Oct 1874
…containing 2fc acres the other 4j acres bounded by a fine stream of water situated on the new brighton road not half a mile from north-east town-belt apply to john lewis crystal palace buildings 2184…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 26 September 1878) · Papers Past, 26 Sept 1878
…good milker apply mr hebden times office or afc fche house formerly occupied bv mr laine new brighton road 2o3 anted eight good hands lo if all timber and clear bush afc a saw mill constant work give…
LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 29 September 1879) · Papers Past, 29 Sept 1879
…hich appeared in saturday isue of the lyttelton times detailing a sticking-up case on the new brighton road should call upon them allkcjbd labcent a man named john fish was arrested on saturday night…
Aitken & Roberts · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1880
…iness (ironmongers) Lichfield Street, Christchurch. Who also was the owner of Maesbury in New Brighton Road. 2019 Photo Hunt…
DRAINAGE BOARD. (Star, 13 December 1881) · Papers Past, 13 Dec 1881
…shaw re mr travis request to the board to erect a bridge or culvert over a drain near the new brighton road they advised that if the road crossed by the drain was a publio highway at tho time the drai…
BOROUGH COUNCIL. (Star, 17 January 1882) · Papers Past, 17 Jan 1882
…tenance of the north boad from norman lane to white bridge as also the maintenance of the new brighton road from christchnreh to new brighton both olf which are hoavy liabilities upon tho boad board i…
Local & General. (Star, 22 April 1882) · Papers Past, 22 Apr 1882
…ffered amongst o her lote a number of sections 32 perches each situate at biohmond on the new brighton road and the property of mr w flesher one b-ction waa sold for 80 and oth-rs were pisaed in at 10…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 07 March 1883) · Papers Past, 7 Mar 1883
…y f i to mrs m m wyatt colombo street north 1679 ante a boy to milk apply o kinge shirley new brighton road near bings land 1696 w anted a young girl accustomed to general housework 17 gloucester stre…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 06 July 1883) · Papers Past, 6 Jul 1883
…uting w j ferguson sydenham 4591 wante boy must be good milker apply g kinge shirley farm new brighton road 4575 wanted lodgings at ix perwesk exclu sive of wsbing must have a private room and fire fo…

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.

Horseshoe Lake lake · 2 m away Preeces Stream stream · 17 m away Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 26 m away Avon Corridor 11 Rrz Land ramp · a reported pin on the line Horseshoe Lake Reserve shelter · 12 m away Amelia Rogers Reserve boardwalk · 21 m away Amelia Rogers Reserve jetty · 45 m away Amelia Rogers Reserve footbridge · 46 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names New Brighton Road in 77 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 12 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Marshland Road & New Brighton Road, 42 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.