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Nova Place

20 reports at 9 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 19 separate days somebody filed something about it.

20 reports9 addresses19 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 2400th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4 Nova Place, 5 reports4A Nova Place, 4 reports15 Nova Place, 3 reports21 Nova Place, 2 reports17 Nova Place, 2 reports4–18 Nova Place, 1 report14 Nova Place, 1 report10 Nova Place, 1 report1/14 Nova Place, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Nova Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nova Place from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nova Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Nova Place 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.

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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Nova Place in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Nova Place?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Nova Place?

20 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (6), rubbish & dumping (5), water & drains (3).

When was Nova Place first reported on?

2017, the record covers 19 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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