Buchanans Road

337 reports at 116 addresses in Hei Hei, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 269 separate days somebody filed something about it.

337 reports 116 addresses269 days reported onfrom the air, then 10 documents carry the namethe 188th 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 Buchanans Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hei Hei.

From the air, then

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

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

Buchanans 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

195 Buchanans Road, 17 reports
24 Buchanans Road, 13 reports
125 Buchanans Road, 10 reports
188 Buchanans Road, 9 reports
152 Buchanans Road, 9 reports
149 Buchanans Road, 9 reports
172 Buchanans Road, 8 reports
147 Buchanans Road, 7 reports
31 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
211 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
202A Buchanans Road, 6 reports
199 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
170 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
157 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
145 Buchanans Road, 6 reports
65 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
213 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
195A Buchanans Road, 5 reports
188A Buchanans Road, 5 reports
175 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
168 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
160 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
127 Buchanans Road, 5 reports
97 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
89 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
84 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
82 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
81 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
41 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
28 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
202 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
194A Buchanans Road, 4 reports
173 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
154 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
150 Buchanans Road, 4 reports
108A Buchanans Road, 4 reports
86E Buchanans Road, 3 reports
54 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
208 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
196A Buchanans Road, 3 reports
196 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
194 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
159 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
141 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
135 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
108 Buchanans Road, 3 reports
84A Buchanans Road, 2 reports
69 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
39 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
37 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
32 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
29 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
198 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
193 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
190B Buchanans Road, 2 reports
180 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
179 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
166 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
165 Buchanans Road, 2 reports
164 Buchanans Road, 2 reports

and the other 56 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 96 reports
Roads & footpaths, 83 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 61 reports
Water & drains, 52 reports
Trees & parks, 32 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Everything else, 4 reports
Noise, 2 reports

Year by year

2016, 5 reports
2017, 30 reports
2018, 18 reports
2019, 28 reports
2020, 30 reports
2021, 8 reports
2022, 25 reports
2023, 54 reports
2024, 41 reports
2025, 62 reports

In the written record

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

Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 September 1935) · Papers Past, 13 Sept 1935
…wl day-old pullets sexed by japanese expert order now phone writeor call fazackerley bros buchanans road sockburn shruhshall superior seeds and plants lists on application a h shrubshall co ltd 659 co…
CASUALTY LIST (Evening Post, 05 May 1941) · Papers Past, 5 May 1941
…reported missing now reported by international red cross prisoner of war mr f d jones 99 buchanans road sockburn f flying officer bernard stanley maurice jones raf killed in action mrs j c jones 15 m…
REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 21 May 1945) · Papers Past, 21 May 1945
…lenmore omihi waipani kd isorth canterbury m ruimt gillett francis s fl mrs s j gillett 7 buchanans road upper riccartou christchurch m iguthrie george e fl mr he guthrie gl kimbolton road fclldlng fl…
Ian McAuley Olliver etc. · New Zealand Gazette, 23 Mar 2000
…a. Walker, Stephen Malcolm, beneficiary, formerly of Railway Road, Aylesbury, now of 188A Buchanans Road, Christchurch. Lam, Naomi Ruth, beneficiary, of 122 Awapuni Road, Gisborne. Hartley, Stephen Ch…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 10 Feb 2005
…eath Street, Porirua, Wellington, at 10.18 a.m.Parker, Susan Elizabeth, caregiver, of 502 Buchanans Road, Christchurch, at 9.50 a.m.Pitts, Ian, company director, of 7/47 Marriner Street, Christchurch,…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 7 Dec 2006
…r, of 30 Rutherford Drive, Waikanae, at 10.31 a.m.Paulsen, Scott James, unemployed, of 44 Buchanans Road, Christchurch, at 1.19 p.m.Tharme, Paul Charles, at 10.25 a.m.1 December 2006Robinson, Lynette…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 28 Aug 2008
…, Christopher Mark, 6 Glen Terrace, Te Puke – 22 August 2008.Hurring, Jacinda Daphne, 175 Buchanans Road, Hei Hei, Hornby, Christchurch – 18 August 2008.Jackson, Gillian Kay, 10 Westgate Street, Ngaru…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10 · New Zealand Gazette, 1 Sept 2010
…12, page 2967815 11 1 Christchurch From 50m north-east of Yaldhurst Road to 280m north of Buchanans Road. 60 1/09/2010, No 112, page 2967816 11 1 Christchurch From 280m north-east of Buchanans Road to…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 4 Oct 2012
…n, Jeremy George Edward, Christchurch - 24 September 2012.Millard, Alesha Catherine, 194B Buchanans Road, Hei Hei, Christchurch - 24 September 2012.Nel, David Phillip, 3/46 Beatrice Street, Avenal, In…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Amendment Bylaw 2017/2 · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Mar 2017
…2967 855A 11 723 Yaldhurst The section of State Highway 73 at Yaldhurst from 150m east of Buchanans Road to 150m west of Buchanans Road. Any time during any period specified in condition 3 of the Vari…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Gilberthorpe School, Contributing · decile 2 · EQI 475 · roll 236

The named ground

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

Showgate Reserve footbridge · 107 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 50 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 12 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Buchanans Road & State Highway 1S, 47 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.