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Chester Street West

341 reports at 22 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 248 separate days somebody filed something about it.

341 reports22 addresses248 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then39 documents carry the namethe 225th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

55 Chester Street West, 148 reports66 Chester Street West, 57 reports59 Chester Street West, 53 reports54 Chester Street West, 24 reports24 Chester Street West, 14 reports48 Chester Street West, 6 reports42 Chester Street West, 6 reports51 Chester Street West, 5 reports2 Chester Street West, 5 reports64 Chester Street West, 4 reports44 Chester Street West, 3 reports20 Chester Street West, 3 reports37 Chester Street West, 2 reports31 Chester Street West, 2 reports28 Chester Street West, 2 reports50 Chester Street West, 1 report48D Chester Street West, 1 report45 Chester Street West, 1 report38 Chester Street West, 1 report35 Chester Street West, 1 report17 Chester Street West, 1 report10 Chester Street West, 1 reportFloral Clock and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Chester Street West, 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

Chester Street West from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester Street West from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chester Street West 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

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 39 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 20 m away Ferrier Fountain lake · 58 m away Victoria Square ramp · 5 m away Victoria Square boat ramp · 35 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 61 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 73 m away Victoria Square set of steps · 86 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Chester Street West in 3 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 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 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 fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chester Street West?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chester Street West?

341 reports at 22 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (208), water & drains (50), roads & footpaths (27).

When was Chester Street West first reported on?

2016, the record covers 248 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Chester Street West?

Floral Clock and Setting.

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