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Cooks Lane

27 reports at 11 addresses in Heathcote Valley, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 27 separate days somebody filed something about it.

27 reports11 addresses27 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1984th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Cooks Lane, 8 reports17 Cooks Lane, 5 reports6 Cooks Lane, 3 reports16 Cooks Lane, 3 reports5 Cooks Lane, 2 reports4 Cooks Lane, 1 report3 Cooks Lane, 1 report21 Cooks Lane, 1 report20 Cooks Lane, 1 report2 Cooks Lane, 1 report19 Cooks Lane, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Cooks Lane, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Heathcote Valley.

From the air, then

Cooks Lane from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Cooks Lane from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cooks Lane from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Cooks Lane 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 named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Cooks Reserve footbridge · 26 m away Cooks Reserve boardwalk · 69 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Cooks Lane in 1 crash 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoParks, a report photoRoading/Streets, a report photoParks, a report photoParks, a report photo more photographs
on the Heathcote Valley wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Cooks Lane?

In Heathcote Valley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Cooks Lane?

27 reports at 11 addresses, most often trees & parks (12), roads & footpaths (6), water & drains (3).

When was Cooks Lane first reported on?

2015, the record covers 27 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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