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Dorset Street

80 reports at 17 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 67 separate days somebody filed something about it.

80 reports17 addresses67 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then18 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 1000th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2A Dorset Street, 17 reports24 Dorset Street, 16 reports1 Dorset Street, 11 reports3 Dorset Street, 6 reports19 Dorset Street, 5 reports28 Dorset Street, 4 reports17 Dorset Street, 3 reports14 Dorset Street, 3 reports7 Dorset Street, 2 reports26 Dorset Street, 2 reports22 Dorset Street, 2 reports20 Dorset Street, 2 reports18 Dorset Street, 2 reports1-3 Dorset Street, 2 reports5 Dorset Street, 1 report4 Dorset Street, 1 report2 Dorset Street, 1 reportDwellings and Setting, Dorset Street Flats: register

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

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

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 18 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Dorset Street, 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 open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 17 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Dorset Street in 14 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Water Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoLitter, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Dorset Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Dorset Street?

80 reports at 17 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (26), water & drains (23), roads & footpaths (15).

When was Dorset Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 67 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Dorset Street?

Dwellings and Setting, Dorset Street Flats.

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