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Rees Street

33 reports at 5 addresses in Christchurch Central City, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

33 reports5 addresses31 days reported onfrom the air, then72 documents carry the namethe 1794th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

7 Rees Street, 9 reports5 Rees Street, 7 reports9 Rees Street, 6 reports2 Rees Street, 6 reports11 Rees Street, 5 reports

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

From the air, then

Rees Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rees Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rees Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Rees 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. 72 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 65 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land set of steps · 61 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land jetty · 66 m away unnamed jetty · 98 m away Avon Corridor 1 Rrz Land set of steps · 135 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rees Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.

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

Facility - General Request, a report photoDamaged Street Light, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photo more photographs
on the Christchurch Central City wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rees Street?

In Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rees Street?

33 reports at 5 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (11), trees & parks (11), graffiti & vandalism (5).

When was Rees Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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