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Wood Lane

21 reports at 7 addresses in Fendalton, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

21 reports7 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then18 documents carry the namethe 2267th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Wood Lane, 10 reports4 Wood Lane, 3 reports8 Wood Lane, 2 reports3 Wood Lane, 2 reports1B Wood Lane, 2 reports5 Wood Lane, 1 report1A Wood Lane, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wood Lane from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wood Lane from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wood Lane 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. 18 on the shelf; the 1 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.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wood Lane in 1 crash 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wood Lane?

In Fendalton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wood Lane?

21 reports at 7 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (9), water & drains (6), roads & footpaths (4).

When was Wood Lane first reported on?

2019, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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