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Cresswell Avenue

48 reports at 8 addresses in Governors Bay, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

48 reports8 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then1 businessesthe 1473rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Cresswell Avenue, 18 reports1 Cresswell Avenue, 17 reports9 Cresswell Avenue, 6 reports2 Cresswell Avenue, 2 reports13 Cresswell Avenue, 2 reports5 Cresswell Avenue, 1 report1–23 Cresswell Avenue, 1 report19 Cresswell Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Cresswell Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Governors Bay.

From the air, then

Cresswell Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Cresswell Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; 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 Cresswell Avenue 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 Cresswell Avenue?

In Governors Bay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cresswell Avenue?

48 reports at 8 addresses, most often trees & parks (16), water & drains (15), graffiti & vandalism (8).

When was Cresswell Avenue first reported on?

2017, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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