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New Regent Street

67 reports at 25 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 63 separate days somebody filed something about it.

67 reports25 addresses63 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then178 documents carry the name31 businessesthe 1058th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 New Regent Street, 14 reports38 New Regent Street, 6 reports3 New Regent Street, 5 reports5 New Regent Street, 4 reports4 New Regent Street, 4 reports14 New Regent Street, 4 reports12 New Regent Street, 4 reports41 New Regent Street, 3 reports39 New Regent Street, 2 reports34 New Regent Street, 2 reports28 New Regent Street, 2 reports24 New Regent Street, 2 reports16 New Regent Street, 2 reports15 New Regent Street, 2 reports9 New Regent Street, 1 report8 New Regent Street, 1 report7 New Regent Street, 1 report6 New Regent Street, 1 report31 New Regent Street, 1 report27 New Regent Street, 1 report22 New Regent Street, 1 report21 New Regent Street, 1 report18 New Regent Street, 1 report13 New Regent Street, 1 report11 New Regent Street, 1 reportNew Regent Street Shops and Setting: register

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

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

On foot, The square and its ring walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 178 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 31

Premises whose address in the directory is New Regent Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 19 more whose address names it.

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 · 99 m away Edmonds Band Rotunda set of steps · 106 m away Edmonds Band Rotunda set of steps · 107 m away Edmonds Band Rotunda set of steps · 112 m away Edmonds Band Rotunda set of steps · 118 m away Rauora Park boardwalk · 139 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names New Regent Street in 5 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

Graffiti 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 photoTrees - General, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Street Light, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is New Regent Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on New Regent Street?

67 reports at 25 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (28), roads & footpaths (17), rubbish & dumping (8).

When was New Regent Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 63 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on New Regent Street?

New Regent Street Shops and Setting.

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