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Ensign Street

95 reports at 39 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 80 separate days somebody filed something about it.

95 reports39 addresses80 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 872nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

69 Ensign Street, 8 reports74E Ensign Street, 7 reports73 Ensign Street, 5 reports44 Ensign Street, 5 reports38A Ensign Street, 5 reports77 Ensign Street, 4 reports75 Ensign Street, 4 reports38 Ensign Street, 4 reports72 Ensign Street, 3 reports46 Ensign Street, 3 reports37 Ensign Street, 3 reports29 Ensign Street, 3 reports22 Ensign Street, 3 reports74 Ensign Street, 2 reports70A Ensign Street, 2 reports70 Ensign Street, 2 reports68A Ensign Street, 2 reports66 Ensign Street, 2 reports55 Ensign Street, 2 reports54 Ensign Street, 2 reports51 Ensign Street, 2 reports50 Ensign Street, 2 reports42 Ensign Street, 2 reports23 Ensign Street, 2 reports12 Ensign Street, 2 reports71 Ensign Street, 1 report68 Ensign Street, 1 report58 Ensign Street, 1 report53 Ensign Street, 1 report49 Ensign Street, 1 report48 Ensign Street, 1 report47 Ensign Street, 1 report40 Ensign Street, 1 report36 Ensign Street, 1 report34 Ensign Street, 1 report21 Ensign Street, 1 report20 Ensign Street, 1 report19 Ensign Street, 1 report10 Ensign Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Ensign Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Ensign Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ensign Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Ensign Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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 Ensign 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.

Milns Drain drain · 122 m away Aidanfield Reserve footbridge · 89 m away Dunbars Landscape Reserve footbridge · 104 m away Aidanfield Reserve footbridge · 125 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ensign Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Halswell wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Ensign Street?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Ensign Street?

95 reports at 39 addresses, most often water & drains (48), graffiti & vandalism (20), roads & footpaths (13).

When was Ensign Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 80 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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