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Kahu Road

150 reports at 39 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 129 separate days somebody filed something about it.

150 reports39 addresses129 days reported on4 on the registerfrom the air, then7 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 538th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

30 Kahu Road, 25 reports31 Kahu Road, 18 reports16 Kahu Road, 13 reports34 Kahu Road, 11 reports40 Kahu Road, 10 reports39A Kahu Road, 8 reports25 Kahu Road, 7 reports75 Kahu Road, 5 reports98 Kahu Road, 4 reports87 Kahu Road, 4 reports35 Kahu Road, 4 reports70 Kahu Road, 3 reports39 Kahu Road, 3 reports36 Kahu Road, 3 reports29A Kahu Road, 3 reports85 Kahu Road, 2 reports59 Kahu Road, 2 reports48 Kahu Road, 2 reports39V Kahu Road, 2 reports16A Kahu Road, 2 reports89 Kahu Road, 1 report86 Kahu Road, 1 report83 Kahu Road, 1 report82 Kahu Road, 1 report81 Kahu Road, 1 report72 Kahu Road, 1 report69 Kahu Road, 1 report63 Kahu Road, 1 report57 Kahu Road, 1 report41–73 Kahu Road, 1 report39H Kahu Road, 1 report39C Kahu Road, 1 report38 Kahu Road, 1 report32 Kahu Road, 1 report29 Kahu Road, 1 report27 Kahu Road, 1 report23 Kahu Road, 1 report22–32 Kahu Road, 1 report17 Kahu Road, 1 reportChristchurch Boys' High School Main Building and Setting: registerChristchurch Boys' High School War Memorial and Setting: registerFormer Riccarton Farm Buildings and Setting: registerFormer dwelling and setting, Riccarton: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Kahu Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Fendalton.

From the air, then

Kahu Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kahu Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kahu Road 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 bush and the great houses · The old estates walk this street.

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 businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Kahu Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 Kahu Road in 13 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 Kahu Road?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Kahu Road?

150 reports at 39 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (55), roads & footpaths (43), trees & parks (25).

When was Kahu Road first reported on?

2016, the record covers 129 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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