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Conference Street

61 reports at 29 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 57 separate days somebody filed something about it.

61 reports29 addresses57 days reported onfrom the air, then144 documents carry the namethe 1158th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

53 Conference Street, 6 reports51 Conference Street, 4 reports35 Conference Street, 4 reports27B Conference Street, 4 reports21 Conference Street, 4 reports16 Conference Street, 4 reports49 Conference Street, 3 reports36 Conference Street, 3 reports10 Conference Street, 3 reports9 Conference Street, 2 reports47 Conference Street, 2 reports39 Conference Street, 2 reports27A Conference Street, 2 reports23 Conference Street, 2 reports12 Conference Street, 2 reports7A Conference Street, 1 report45 Conference Street, 1 report41 Conference Street, 1 report37 Conference Street, 1 report31 Conference Street, 1 report24A Conference Street, 1 report24 Conference Street, 1 report2/28 Conference Street, 1 report2-10 Conference Street, 1 report19 Conference Street, 1 report17 Conference Street, 1 report15 Conference Street, 1 report13 Conference Street, 1 report11 Conference Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Conference Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Conference Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Conference 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. 144 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Conference 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Conference Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Conference Street?

61 reports at 29 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (19), water & drains (17), graffiti & vandalism (11).

When was Conference Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 57 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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