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wales Street

162 reports at 87 addresses in Halswell, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 138 separate days somebody filed something about it.

162 reports87 addresses138 days reported onfrom the air, then21 documents carry the namethe 499th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

106 Wales Street, 10 reports152 Wales Street, 8 reports33 Wales Street, 7 reports143 Wales Street, 6 reports125 Wales Street, 5 reports106E Wales Street, 5 reports69 Wales Street, 4 reports191 Wales Street, 4 reports71 Wales Street, 3 reports49 Wales Street, 3 reports35 Wales Street, 3 reports183 Wales Street, 3 reports148 Wales Street, 3 reports97 Wales Street, 2 reports76 Wales Street, 2 reports63 Wales Street, 2 reports58 Wales Street, 2 reports46 Wales Street, 2 reports45B Wales Street, 2 reports3 Wales Street, 2 reports29 Wales Street, 2 reports26 Wales Street, 2 reports22 Wales Street, 2 reports2 Wales Street, 2 reports181 Wales Street, 2 reports18 Wales Street, 2 reports173 Wales Street, 2 reports161 Wales Street, 2 reports160 Wales Street, 2 reports140 Wales Street, 2 reports130 Wales Street, 2 reports12 Wales Street, 2 reports119 Wales Street, 2 reports109 Wales Street, 2 reports108 Wales Street, 2 reports104 Wales Street, 2 reports1 Wales Street, 2 reports98 Wales Street, 1 report94 Wales Street, 1 report91 Wales Street, 1 report90 Wales Street, 1 report85 Wales Street, 1 report81 Wales Street, 1 report7A Wales Street, 1 report79 Wales Street, 1 report72 Wales Street, 1 report7 Wales Street, 1 report64 Wales Street, 1 report62 Wales Street, 1 report60-46 Wales Street, 1 report58-64 Wales Street, 1 report57 Wales Street, 1 report52 Wales Street, 1 report51 Wales Street, 1 report50 Wales Street, 1 report5-11 Wales Street, 1 report45 Wales Street, 1 report44 Wales Street, 1 report43 Wales Street, 1 report4 Wales Street, 1 report39 Wales Street, 1 report34 Wales Street, 1 report25 Wales Street, 1 report20 Wales Street, 1 report19 Wales Street, 1 report17 Wales Street, 1 report162 Wales Street, 1 report150 Wales Street, 1 report149 Wales Street, 1 report144E Wales Street, 1 report144 Wales Street, 1 report142 Wales Street, 1 report14 Wales Street, 1 report138 Wales Street, 1 report136 Wales Street, 1 report131 Wales Street, 1 report12E Wales Street, 1 report129-171 Wales Street, 1 report129 Wales Street, 1 report124 Wales Street, 1 report121 Wales Street, 1 report118 Wales Street, 1 report116 wales Street, 1 report116 Wales Street, 1 report111 Wales Street, 1 report11 Wales Street, 1 report101 Wales Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

wales Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
wales Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
wales 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

and the other 27 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 21 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.

Nottingham Stream stream · 19 m away Westbrooke Park set of steps · 94 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names wales Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Water Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPothole, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoWater General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoLitter, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photo more photographs
on the Halswell wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is wales Street?

In Halswell, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on wales Street?

162 reports at 87 addresses, most often water & drains (58), roads & footpaths (27), graffiti & vandalism (27).

When was wales Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 138 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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