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Otley Street

39 reports at 16 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 39 separate days somebody filed something about it.

39 reports16 addresses39 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1567th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Otley Street, 6 reports9 Otley Street, 4 reports2a Otley Street, 4 reports10 Otley Street, 4 reports32 Otley Street, 3 reports17 Otley Street, 3 reports33 Otley Street, 2 reports22 Otley Street, 2 reports20 Otley Street, 2 reports19 Otley Street, 2 reports10-20 Otley Street, 2 reports36 Otley Street, 1 report35 Otley Street, 1 report31B Otley Street, 1 report29B Otley Street, 1 report18 Otley Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Moa Reserve shelter · 134 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Otley Street in 3 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

Damaged Street Sign, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoLitter, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Otley Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Otley Street?

39 reports at 16 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (14), water & drains (6), trees & parks (6).

When was Otley Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 39 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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