chch.live a street, in depth

Moorhouse Avenue

106 reports at 42 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

106 reports42 addresses87 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then250 documents carry the name7 businessesthe 795th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

359 Moorhouse Avenue, 12 reports21 Moorhouse Avenue, 8 reports391 Moorhouse Avenue, 6 reports367 Moorhouse Avenue, 6 reports473 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports347 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports30 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports95 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports479 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports471 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports4 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports373 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports321 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports297 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports1/12 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports81 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports305 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports263 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports22 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports20 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports2 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports189-201 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports131 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports85 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report63 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report472 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report460B Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report424 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report375-415 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report365 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report343 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report30A Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report28 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report261 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report26 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report24 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report23 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report211 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report171 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report157 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report14 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report12 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 reportFormer Grosvenor Hotel and Setting: register

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

Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue 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. 250 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 7

Premises whose address in the directory is Moorhouse Avenue, 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; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Addington Brook stream · 3 m away The Old Stock Yards ruin · 209 m away Hagley Park South footbridge · 107 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Moorhouse Avenue in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Lincoln Road & Moorhouse Avenue, 94 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoLitter, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Moorhouse Avenue?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Moorhouse Avenue?

106 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (67), roads & footpaths (17), trees & parks (9).

When was Moorhouse Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Moorhouse Avenue?

Lincoln Road and Moorhouse Avenue, 94 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

What heritage places are on Moorhouse Avenue?

Former Grosvenor Hotel and Setting.

Every street the archive knows → · Christchurch Central City → · This street as a feed →