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Richmond Avenue

114 reports at 30 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 105 separate days somebody filed something about it.

114 reports30 addresses105 days reported onfrom the air, then24 documents carry the namethe 669th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

50 Richmond Avenue, 29 reports49 Richmond Avenue, 17 reports91 Richmond Avenue, 8 reports77 Richmond Avenue, 8 reports39R Richmond Avenue, 6 reports57 Richmond Avenue, 5 reports51 Richmond Avenue, 5 reports44 Richmond Avenue, 4 reports53 Richmond Avenue, 3 reports9 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports67 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports65 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports6 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports41R Richmond Avenue, 2 reports32 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports17 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports12 Richmond Avenue, 2 reports88E Richmond Avenue, 1 report8 Richmond Avenue, 1 report75 Richmond Avenue, 1 report42 Richmond Avenue, 1 report39 Richmond Avenue, 1 report36 Richmond Avenue, 1 report33 Richmond Avenue, 1 report3 Richmond Avenue, 1 report29 Richmond Avenue, 1 report28 Richmond Avenue, 1 report20 Richmond Avenue, 1 report15 Richmond Avenue, 1 report14 Richmond Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Richmond Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richmond Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richmond Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richmond Avenue 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. 24 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The named ground

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 Richmond Avenue in 2 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 Richmond Avenue?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Richmond Avenue?

114 reports at 30 addresses, most often trees & parks (30), graffiti & vandalism (29), roads & footpaths (18).

When was Richmond Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 105 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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