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Downing Street

45 reports at 25 addresses in Hoon Hay, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

45 reports25 addresses45 days reported onfrom the air, then19 documents carry the namethe 1398th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

19 Downing Street, 5 reports5 Downing Street, 4 reports20A Downing Street, 4 reports6 Downing Street, 3 reports50 Downing Street, 3 reports20B Downing Street, 3 reports46 Downing Street, 2 reports34 Downing Street, 2 reports22 Downing Street, 2 reports1 Downing Street, 2 reports48 Downing Street, 1 report44 Downing Street, 1 report42 Downing Street, 1 report39 Downing Street, 1 report36 Downing Street, 1 report29 Downing Street, 1 report22A Downing Street, 1 report21 Downing Street, 1 report18 Downing Street, 1 report16-14 Downing Street, 1 report15 Downing Street, 1 report14A Downing Street, 1 report14 Downing Street, 1 report11 Downing Street, 1 report1/46 Downing Street, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Downing Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Hoon Hay.

From the air, then

Downing Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Downing Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Downing Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Downing Street 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. 19 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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.

Hoon Hay Childrens Library ramp · 118 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Downing Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Damaged Street Sign, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoWater General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photo more photographs
on the Hoon Hay wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Downing Street?

In Hoon Hay, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Downing Street?

45 reports at 25 addresses, most often water & drains (24), rubbish & dumping (9), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Downing Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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