Hills road

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

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

• 216 Hills Road, 39 reports
• 440 Hills Road, 23 reports
• 320 Hills Road, 18 reports
• 217 Hills Road, 17 reports
• 219 Hills Road, 16 reports
• 218 Hills Road, 15 reports
• 239 Hills Road, 11 reports
• 518 Hills Road, 10 reports
• 217E Hills Road, 9 reports
• 345 Hills Road, 8 reports
• 241 Hills Road, 8 reports
• 230 Hills Road, 8 reports
• 228 Hills Road, 8 reports
• 367 Hills Road, 7 reports
• 306 Hills Road, 7 reports
• 407 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 311 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 282 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 281 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 269 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 237 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 227 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 221 Hills Road, 6 reports
• 250 Hills Road, 5 reports
• 238A Hills Road, 5 reports
• 369 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 314 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 313 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 303 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 301 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 273 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 252 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 243 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 240 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 223 Hills Road, 4 reports
• 520 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 407-409 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 348 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 315 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 283 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 277 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 276 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 267 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 259 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 256 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 244 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 234 Hills Road, 3 reports
• 205A Hills Road, 3 reports
• 458 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 450 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 441 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 439 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 436 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 384 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 381 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 371 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 361 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 355 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 351 Hills Road, 2 reports
• 350 Hills Road, 2 reports

What got reported

• Graffiti & vandalism, 168 reports
• Water & drains, 136 reports
• Roads & footpaths, 77 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 61 reports
• Trees & parks, 31 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 13 reports
• Everything else, 8 reports
• Animals & pests, 2 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 2 reports
• 2016, 17 reports
• 2017, 17 reports
• 2018, 22 reports
• 2019, 38 reports
• 2020, 26 reports
• 2021, 40 reports
• 2022, 53 reports
• 2023, 101 reports
• 2024, 65 reports
• 2025, 70 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 100 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 29 September 1858) · Papers Past, 29 Sept 1858
  …epted awebb 297 5 0 no tender do metalling ferry road name of parties cashel-street hills hills road to christchurch quay to marks tendering road cashel-street the ferry thomas hughes 7s per yard 9s p…
• ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURE (Lyttelton Times, 06 November 1858) · Papers Past, 6 Nov 1858
  …ath road forming and metalling from heathcote to coppell 2000 widening and metalling 30c0 hills road metalling 30 current repairs of roads 800 rivers clearing avon 500 improvement of the heathcote 150…
• Provincial Council. (Lyttelton Times, 29 October 1859) · Papers Past, 29 Oct 1859
  …aroa antf the peninsula the other works to be specially mentioned under this head are the hills road and the papanut and harewood koad the former has been gradually opened andnow forms an excellent ro…
• JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860) · Papers Past, 19 May 1860
  …r street christchurch architect luxton john winsor saw mill s rangiora farmer lyons james hills road heathcote district cordwainer lyons joseph hills road heathcote district laborer maber john island…
• Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 13 June 1860) · Papers Past, 13 Jun 1860
  …thomas lower lincoln road laborer lynch john south christchuroh road laborer lyons james hills road heathcote district cord wainer lyons joseph hills road heathcote district laborer maber1 john islan…
• Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 16 March 1861) · Papers Past, 16 Mar 1861
  …comprises the rural sections nos 91 877 and 2600 and is divided into two portions by the hills road from christchurch to lyttelton the portion south of the road contains about 40 acres a considerable…
• LYTTELTON AND CHRISTCHURCH RAILWAY. (Lyttelton Times, 20 July 1861) · Papers Past, 20 Jul 1861
  …ble to get across the ferry from the rush there took heart of grace and turned off to the hills road so that by the time of his honor arrival about twelve oclock the procession with some slight deviat…
• Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 23 November 1861) · Papers Past, 23 Nov 1861
  …near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 30 November 1861) · Papers Past, 30 Nov 1861
  …near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nob 245 and 91 the line of rai…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 04 December 1861) · Papers Past, 4 Dec 1861
  …near the head of the navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 11 December 1861) · Papers Past, 11 Dec 1861
  …the head of the j navigation on the south bank of the river heatht cote and close to the hills road leading from i christchurch io lyttelton being parts ot rural i sections nos 245 and 91 f the line…
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Lyttelton Times, 14 December 1861) · Papers Past, 14 Dec 1861
  …near the head ofthe navigation on the south bank of the river heathcote and close to the hills road leading from christchurch to lyttelton being parts of rural sections nos 245 and 91 the line of rai…

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

The businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Hills road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

• Auto Super ShoppeCar repair · 218 Hills Road
• Cantab Gourmet ChickenButchers · 347 Hills Road
• Cham's Bakery & CoffeeBusiness · 351A Hills Road, Mairehau
• St Albans Shirley ClubClubs · 269 Hills Road, Shirley

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hills road in 82 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 13 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Hills Road & Shirley Road, 59 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.

• BICYCLE ROAD RACE. (Ashburton Guardian, 28 November 1921) · Ashburton Guardian, 28 Nov 1921
• AMATEUR CYCLING (Evening Post, 24 September 1925) · Evening Post, 24 Sept 1925
• A CLOSE FINISH (Evening Post, 12 September 1927) · Evening Post, 12 Sept 1927
• THE ROAD RACE (Ellesmere Guardian, 27 October 1931) · Ellesmere Guardian, 27 Oct 1931
• BAD LANGUAGE (Evening Post, 06 September 1934) · Evening Post, 6 Sept 1934
• TRAIN AND TRUCK (Evening Post, 23 February 1935) · Evening Post, 23 Feb 1935
• TIMARU TO CHRISTCHURCH (Evening Post, 12 October 1935) · Evening Post, 12 Oct 1935
• Page 13 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 24 December 1935) · Evening Post, 24 Dec 1935
• ATHLETICS (Ellesmere Guardian, 01 September 1936) · Ellesmere Guardian, 1 Sept 1936

As it was reported

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The latest on it

• Dumped Rubbish, 310 Hills Road, 12 Oct 2026
• Water Leak, 257 Hills Road, 11 Oct 2026
• General Request, 252 Hills Rd, 2 Oct 2026
• Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, 255 Hills Rd, 2 Oct 2026
• Water Leak, 345 Hills Rd, 26 Sept 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 205A Hills Road, 20 Sept 2026
• Water Leak, 283 Hills Road, 16 Sept 2026
• Litter, 271 Hills Rd, 9 Sept 2026
• Rubbish and Bins - General, 223 Hills Rd, 9 Sept 2026
• Damaged Street Light, 239 Hills Road, 1 Sept 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 242 Hills Rd, 31 Aug 2026
• Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 216 Hills Road, 31 Aug 2026
• Water Leak, 254 Hills Road, 30 Aug 2026
• Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 216 Hills Road, 29 Aug 2026
• Pavement - Damaged, 441 Hills Rd, 27 Aug 2026