Waimakariri Road

86 reports at 24 addresses in Harewood, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 70 separate days somebody filed something about it.

86 reports 24 addresses70 days reported onfrom the air, then 6 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 968th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Waimakariri Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waimakariri Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Waimakariri Road 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

Rubbish & dumping, 51 reports
Roads & footpaths, 15 reports
Trees & parks, 15 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Water & drains, 1 report
Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report

Year by year

2019, 2 reports
2020, 1 report
2021, 5 reports
2022, 8 reports
2023, 16 reports
2024, 14 reports
2025, 19 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 6 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

PROVINCIAL COUNCIL. (Lyttelton Times, 25 December 1861) · Papers Past, 25 Dec 1861
…aid 100 dray track to peel forest 450 250 neighbourhood of timaru 250 timaru streets 200 waimakariri road by porter pass 100 the peovincial seceetaey proposed to consider votes of salaries for the de…
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL EXTENSION BILL, 1865. (Timaru Herald, 05 January 1866) · Papers Past, 5 Jan 1866
…road on the west by the south road from the rakaia to the selwyn thence by the selwyn and waimakariri road along the western boundary of run no 39 to the southern bank of the waimakariri 18 the ashbur…

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Waimakariri Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

St James Bed and BreakfastB&Bs · 125 Waimakariri Road, Harewood

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Waimakariri Road in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.