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Allen Street

188 reports at 36 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 76 separate days somebody filed something about it.

188 reports36 addresses76 days reported onfrom the air, then102 documents carry the namethe 918th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Allen Street, 17 reports37 Allen Street, 17 reports17 Allen Street, 16 reports23 Allen Street, 15 reports38 Allen Street, 10 reports35 Allen Street, 10 reports30 Allen Street, 10 reports31 Allen Street, 9 reports34 Allen Street, 8 reports32 Allen Street, 8 reports7 Allen Street, 7 reports33 Allen Street, 7 reports26 Allen Street, 6 reports36 Allen Street, 5 reports163 Allen Street, 5 reports10A Allen Street, 5 reports10b Allen Street, 3 reports10B Allen Street, 3 reports10 Allen Street, 3 reports41 Allen Street, 2 reports39 Allen Street, 2 reports30-32 Allen Street, 2 reports27 Allen Street, 2 reports25 Allen Street, 2 reports11 Allen Street, 2 reports10a Allen Street, 2 reports7-11 Allen Street, 1 report39-41 Allen Street, 1 report38-34 Allen Street, 1 report38-10 Allen Street, 1 report35-41 Allen Street, 1 report28 Allen Street, 1 report21 Allen Street, 1 report2 Allen Street, 1 report17-27 Allen Street, 1 report10-26 Allen Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Allen Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Allen Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Allen Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Allen 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. 102 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Allen Street in 4 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

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Allen Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Allen Street?

188 reports at 36 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (168), roads & footpaths (12), water & drains (5).

When was Allen Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 76 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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