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Waipara Street

50 reports at 17 addresses in Cracroft, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 43 separate days somebody filed something about it.

50 reports17 addresses43 days reported onfrom the air, then5 documents carry the namethe 1440th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

35 Waipara Street, 21 reports25 Waipara Street, 6 reports12 Waipara Street, 3 reports24 Waipara Street, 2 reports22 Waipara Street, 2 reports17 Waipara Street, 2 reports16 Waipara Street, 2 reports14 Waipara Street, 2 reports1 Waipara Street, 2 reports7 Waipara Street, 1 report5 Waipara Street, 1 report37 Waipara Street, 1 report36 Waipara Street, 1 report30 Waipara Street, 1 report26 Waipara Street, 1 report20 Waipara Street, 1 report11 Waipara Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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.

Cashmere Stream river · 56 m away unnamed jetty · 83 m away

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

Pavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Cracroft wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Waipara Street?

In Cracroft, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Waipara Street?

50 reports at 17 addresses, most often trees & parks (22), water & drains (8), rubbish & dumping (7).

When was Waipara Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 43 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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