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Makora Street

94 reports at 30 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 85 separate days somebody filed something about it.

94 reports30 addresses85 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 821st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Makora Street, 42 reports18 Makora Street, 8 reports30 Makora Street, 3 reports24A Makora Street, 3 reports20 Makora Street, 3 reports8 Makora Street, 2 reports7 Makora Street, 2 reports36-28 Makora Street, 2 reports36 Makora Street, 2 reports33 Makora Street, 2 reports31 Makora Street, 2 reports28a Makora Street, 2 reports28B Makora Street, 2 reports24 Makora Street, 2 reports22 Makora Street, 2 reports8B Makora Street, 1 report6B Makora Street, 1 report6A Makora Street, 1 report35E Makora Street, 1 report32 Makora Street, 1 report30A Makora Street, 1 report29 Makora Street, 1 report26 Makora Street, 1 report25 Makora Street, 1 report21 Makora Street, 1 report20A Makora Street, 1 report19 Makora Street, 1 report16 Makora Street, 1 report15 Makora Street, 1 report12A Makora Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Makora Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Makora Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Makora 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 businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Makora Street, 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.

Waimairi Stream stream · 2 m away Fendalton Park footbridge · 44 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

Damaged Street Sign, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoWater General, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photo more photographs
on the Fendalton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Makora Street?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Makora Street?

94 reports at 30 addresses, most often water & drains (25), rubbish & dumping (19), trees & parks (16).

When was Makora Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 85 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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