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Churchill Street

132 reports at 24 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 115 separate days somebody filed something about it.

132 reports24 addresses115 days reported onfrom the air, then55 documents carry the namethe 604th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

17 Churchill Street, 33 reports4A Churchill Street, 15 reports2 Churchill Street, 14 reports25B Churchill Street, 12 reports25 Churchill Street, 10 reports25C Churchill Street, 8 reports25D Churchill Street, 5 reports4 Churchill Street, 4 reports28 Churchill Street, 4 reports11 Churchill Street, 4 reports5/25 Churchill Street, 3 reports13 Churchill Street, 3 reports25A Churchill Street, 2 reports21 Churchill Street, 2 reports20 Churchill Street, 2 reports18A Churchill Street, 2 reports12 Churchill Street, 2 reports9-25 Churchill Street, 1 report9 Churchill Street, 1 report8 Churchill Street, 1 report5/25E Churchill Street, 1 report25E Churchill Street, 1 report15 Churchill Street, 1 report14 Churchill Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Churchill Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Churchill Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Churchill Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Churchill 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. 55 on the shelf; the 12 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 · 24 m away Barbadoes Cemetery shelter · 96 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land boardwalk · 108 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Churchill Street in 2 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

Overgrown Vegetation, 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 photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Churchill Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Churchill Street?

132 reports at 24 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (66), rubbish & dumping (27), trees & parks (17).

When was Churchill Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 115 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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