Chester Street East
435 reports at 93 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 313 separate days somebody filed something about it.
435 reports93 addresses313 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, then85 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 147th 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 Chester Street East, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Christchurch Central City.
From the air, then
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
- 140 Chester Street East, 20 reports
- 115 Chester Street East, 20 reports
- 160 Chester Street East, 19 reports
- 130 Chester Street East, 19 reports
- 117 Chester Street East, 17 reports
- 186A Chester Street East, 16 reports
- 86 Chester Street East, 15 reports
- 121 Chester Street East, 14 reports
- 168 Chester Street East, 13 reports
- 107 Chester Street East, 12 reports
- 151A Chester Street East, 11 reports
- 177 Chester Street East, 10 reports
- 173 Chester Street East, 9 reports
- 157 Chester Street East, 8 reports
- 141 Chester Street East, 8 reports
- 113 Chester Street East, 8 reports
- 94 Chester Street East, 7 reports
- 150 Chester Street East, 7 reports
- 118 Chester Street East, 7 reports
- 111 Chester Street East, 7 reports
- 1/173 Chester Street East, 7 reports
- 182 Chester Street East, 6 reports
- 145 Chester Street East, 6 reports
- 119 Chester Street East, 6 reports
- 192 Chester Street East, 5 reports
- 188 Chester Street East, 5 reports
- 172 Chester Street East, 5 reports
- 120 Chester Street East, 5 reports
- 91E Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 82 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 186F Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 186E Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 171 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 165 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 162 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 142 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 139 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 133 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 128 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 110 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 102 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 100 Chester Street East, 4 reports
- 98 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 96 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 89 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 177F Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 168A Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 166 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 148 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 131 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 126 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 125A Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 125 Chester Street East, 3 reports
- 90B Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 88 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 87 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 80E Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 80 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 202 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 186 Chester Street East, 2 reports
and the other 33 the record names
- 155 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 154 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 151 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 129 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 124 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 119C Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 116 Chester Street East, 2 reports
- 94-96 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 93 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 92 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 91 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 87-111 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 79 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 5/140 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 198 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 196 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 194 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 186D Chester Street East, 1 report
- 186C Chester Street East, 1 report
- 186B Chester Street East, 1 report
- 173-177 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 168B Chester Street East, 1 report
- 159 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 154-144 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 153 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 149 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 144 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 139-141 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 127 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 123 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 119A Chester Street East, 1 report
- 106 Chester Street East, 1 report
- 103 Chester Street East, 1 report
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 143 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 75 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 71 reports
- Water & drains, 57 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 41 reports
- Trees & parks, 39 reports
- Everything else, 4 reports
- Noise, 4 reports
Year by year
- 2016, 6 reports
- 2017, 1 report
- 2019, 2 reports
- 2020, 16 reports
- 2021, 32 reports
- 2022, 83 reports
- 2023, 110 reports
- 2024, 100 reports
- 2025, 31 reports
On the register
- Dwellings and Setting, 86 Chester Street East
- Dwellings and Setting, 100 Chester Street East
- Former Boiler House and Setting, 175 Chester Street East
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 85 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 28 April 1858)
· Papers Past,
…7 6 164 425427 2 035 115 7 6 the following lots are situate between icilmore street east chester street east barbadoes street and the town belt and 28 2 31 1492 1 6 comprise the sites originally rese…
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 16 June 1860)
· Papers Past,
…istchurch wheelwright vallance james south christchurch road farmer varyer john edmondson chester street east christchurch carpenter vazey frederick hereford street east christchurch laborer veacock r…
- Ward's Brewery
· Canterbury Stories,
Ward's Brewery buildings on the corner of the East Belt (later Fitzgerald Avenue) and Chester Street East. The Avon River can be seen on the left. William Travers photograph album…
- ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.-CLAIMS TO VOTE-1862. (Lyttelton Times, 09 April 1862)
· Papers Past,
…c24bainchristchurchdis j w hampton parts of sections 160-162 with house thereon c f worth chester street east house and land part of section 176 d kinnebrook cashel street part of section 841 j e brow…
- ELECTORAL DISTRICT OF CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH.—CLAIMS TO VOTE—IB 62. (Lyttelton Times, 12 April 1862)
· Papers Past,
…y 5-acre part of sec 248a in christchurch dis parts of section 160-162 with house thereon chester street east house and land part of section 176 cashel street part of section 841 gloucester street chr…
- DEATH. (Star, 30 October 1868)
· Papers Past,
death blyth oct 30 at chester street east christchurch william alexander rutherford blyth twin son of william blyth aged 2 years and…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 17 November 1871)
· Papers Past,
…street 4696 wanted a woman for washing two or three days a week constant apply mrs flavel chester street east 4700 w anted a girl about 16 years of age to assist in house-work apply at once to mrs dix…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 16 September 1873)
· Papers Past,
…o a boy harris goodman colombo street 8530 x ost a painter diamond in oxford i terrace or chester street east if left at the madras store the finder will be rewarded t lee 8542 st marys addington wint…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 17 September 1873)
· Papers Past,
…apprentice apply x office of this paper 8511 lost a painter diamond in oxford terrace or chester street east if left at the madras store the finder will be rewarded t lee 8542 wit and humour i tdemem…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 31 January 1874)
· Papers Past,
…streets 242 wanted a woman for washing two days a week constant work apply to mrs flavel chester street east 244 anted a respectable girl about 14 apply to miss neilson richmond house lichfield btree…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 16 November 1878)
· Papers Past,
…late mr mnish are reapeetfally invited to attend his funeral to leave his late residence chester street east on monday at half-past 2 oclock for the addinston cemetery fl scrimshaw undertaker corner…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 September 1879)
· Papers Past,
…reet greyhound lost sept 15 seven months old puppy fawn with black muzzle w g walker 7303 chester street east philosophical institute the next monthly popular leoture will be de livered in the scienco…
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The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Chester Street East, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Chester Street East in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 198 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 82 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 100 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 98 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 100 Chester Street East,
- Dumped Rubbish, 168B Chester Street East,
- Dumped Rubbish, 162 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 140 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 118 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 107 Chester Street East,
- Accessibility, 157 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 140 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 113 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 133 Chester Street East,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 113 Chester Street East,
Questions, answered briefly
Where is Chester Street East?
In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.
What gets reported on Chester Street East?
435 reports at 93 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (143), rubbish & dumping (75), roads & footpaths (71).
When was Chester Street East first reported on?
2016, the record covers 313 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
What heritage places are on Chester Street East?
Dwellings and Setting, Dwellings and Setting, Former Boiler House and Setting.
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