chch.live a street, in depth

Export Avenue

14 reports at 3 addresses in Harewood, the first in 2022, the latest 2025. 12 separate days somebody filed something about it.

14 reports3 addresses12 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 3009th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Export Avenue, 12 reports5 Export Avenue, 1 report1/8 Export Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Export Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Export Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Export 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.

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

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

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoGraffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photo more photographs
on the Harewood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Export Avenue?

In Harewood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Export Avenue?

14 reports at 3 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (7), roads & footpaths (4), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Export Avenue first reported on?

2022, the record covers 12 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

Every street the archive knows → · Harewood → · This street as a feed →