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Ash Street

45 reports at 4 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 41 separate days somebody filed something about it.

45 reports4 addresses41 days reported onfrom the air, then20 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 1507th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5 Ash Street, 18 reports4 Ash Street, 17 reports2 Ash Street, 8 reports7 Ash Street, 2 reports

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

From the air, then

Ash Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ash Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ash Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ash 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. 20 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Ash Street, 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.

Rauora Park boardwalk · 113 m away Evolution Square & Cotters Lan set of steps · 113 m away Te Kaharoa set of steps · 124 m away unnamed footbridge · 128 m away Rauora Park boardwalk · 135 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ash Street in 1 crash 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

Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRoad Signage, 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 Ash Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ash Street?

45 reports at 4 addresses, most often vehicles & parking (17), graffiti & vandalism (17), roads & footpaths (8).

When was Ash Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 41 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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