Ilam Road

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Ilam Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Ilam.

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

• 66 Ilam Road, 21 reports
• 90 Ilam Road, 11 reports
• 77 Ilam Road, 11 reports
• 120 Ilam Road, 10 reports
• 149 Ilam Road, 7 reports
• 121 Ilam Road, 7 reports
• 158 Ilam Road, 6 reports
• 129 Ilam Road, 6 reports
• 128 Ilam Road, 6 reports
• 165E Ilam Road, 5 reports
• 153 Ilam Road, 5 reports
• 219 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 185 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 148 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 144 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 132 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 115 Ilam Road, 4 reports
• 98 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 87 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 77A Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 71 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 253 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 249 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 240 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 227 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 195 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 156 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 130A Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 116 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 105 Ilam Road, 3 reports
• 69 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 64 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 247 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 234 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 232 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 231 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 230B Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 228b Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 209 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 199 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 197 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 194 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 192 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 190 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 183 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 181 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 177B Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 177A Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 169 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 165 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 162 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 154 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 151A Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 146 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 142 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 140 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 136 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 130 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 104 Ilam Road, 2 reports
• 99 Ilam Road, 1 report

What got reported

• Roads & footpaths, 93 reports
• Water & drains, 56 reports
• Rubbish & dumping, 45 reports
• Trees & parks, 27 reports
• Graffiti & vandalism, 25 reports
• Vehicles & parking, 15 reports
• Everything else, 5 reports

Year by year

• 2015, 2 reports
• 2016, 4 reports
• 2017, 2 reports
• 2018, 7 reports
• 2019, 13 reports
• 2020, 20 reports
• 2021, 11 reports
• 2022, 31 reports
• 2023, 45 reports
• 2024, 46 reports
• 2025, 52 reports

On the register

• Former Dwelling and Setting, Ilam, 87 Ilam Road

On foot, The college and the homesteads walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 34 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 28 August 1886) · Papers Past, 28 Aug 1886
  …william st n opawa f to 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowon 4o ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh3 rd seottmton james c ricoarton lower shirley…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 09 September 1886) · Papers Past, 9 Sept 1886
  …d william et n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwoofl ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scotteton james c riccarton lower shirley s…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 05 October 1886) · Papers Past, 5 Oct 1886
  …william et n opawa 5 to 2 acefs addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holm wood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scottston jame�� kc riccarton lower shirley…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 23 December 1886) · Papers Past, 23 Dec 1886
  …iam bt n sftw5 ftwa j t0 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui blikha rtl seottston james r ac riccartoi 1 ower shi…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 05 January 1887) · Papers Past, 5 Jan 1887
  …nd william bt n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd liucoln rd off opawa v papanui bligh rd ecottston james o riccarton lower shirley b…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 17 January 1887) · Papers Past, 17 Jan 1887
  …nd william st n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scottston james c biocarton lower shirley t…
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 14 March 1887) · Papers Past, 14 Mar 1887
  …nd william st n opawa to 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scott ston jaines r ac biccarton ower shirl…
• Housing · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1972
  Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
• Housing · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1972
  Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
• Housing · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1972
  Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
• Housing · National Publicity Studios black and white file prints, 1 Jan 1972
  Home of Mr and Mrs Whiteside, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
• REGISTER · New Zealand Gazette, 22 Aug 2000
  …rr Pharmacy Limited 3 St Heliers Bay Road, St Heliers, AUCKLAND Ewart Douglas Limited 403 Ilam Road, Fendalton, CHRISTCHURCH Fairfield Pharmacy Limited 289 Waiwhetu Road, Waiwhetu, LOWER HUTT Family C…

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.

• Ilam School, Contributing · decile 6 · EQI 394 · roll 411

The businesses on it, 11

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

• Bellbird HearingAudiologists · 240 Ilam Road
• Haere-roa Events CentreVenues & events · 90 Ilam Road, Ilam
• Happy KitchenRestaurants · 136 Ilam Road, Ilam
• Ilam Homestead Function CentreVenues & events · 87 Ilam Road Ilam
• L B & Co EspressoRestaurants · 136 Ilam Road Ilam
• LB & Co EspressoCafés · 136 Ilam Road
• Oncampus - Catering & EventsCaterers · 90 Ilam Road Ilam
• Otto Pizza & Chicken BarBars & pubs · 90 Ilam Road Ilam
• Symrose's SuperFresh IlamFast food · 136 Ilam Road, Ilam
• The UCSA Event CentreVenues & events · 90 Ilam Road, Ilam
• Zyka Indian CuisineRestaurants · 71 Ilam Road

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Ilam Road in 66 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Ilam Road & Memorial Avenue, 71 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.

• Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 11 December 1852) · Lyttelton Times, 11 Dec 1852
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 25 December 1852) · Lyttelton Times, 25 Dec 1852
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Lyttelton Times, 01 January 1853) · Lyttelton Times, 1 Jan 1853
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 15 January 1853) · Lyttelton Times, 15 Jan 1853
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 22 January 1853) · Lyttelton Times, 22 Jan 1853
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Lyttelton Times, 29 January 1853) · Lyttelton Times, 29 Jan 1853
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 12 February 1853) · Lyttelton Times, 12 Feb 1853
• Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 27 May 1854) · Lyttelton Times, 27 May 1854
• Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 17 December 1859) · Lyttelton Times, 17 Dec 1859
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Wellington Independent, 29 March 1866) · Wellington Independent, 29 Mar 1866
• Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Wellington Independent, 05 May 1866) · Wellington Independent, 5 May 1866
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 8 (Timaru Herald, 03 June 1882) · Timaru Herald, 3 Jun 1882
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Timaru Herald, 21 July 1882) · Timaru Herald, 21 Jul 1882
• Page 1 Advertisements Column 7 (Ashburton Guardian, 20 April 1887) · Ashburton Guardian, 20 Apr 1887
• Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Marlborough Express, 13 October 1896) · Marlborough Express, 13 Oct 1896
• Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 21 January 1902) · Star, 21 Jan 1902
• Page 41 Advertisements Column 3 (Otago Witness, 27 November 1907) · Otago Witness, 27 Nov 1907
• Page 41 Advertisements Column 3 (Otago Witness, 11 December 1907) · Otago Witness, 11 Dec 1907
• FOUND ON ROADSIDE (Evening Post, 28 April 1936) · Evening Post, 28 Apr 1936

As it was reported

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The latest on it

• Pavement - General, 129 Ilam Road, 2 Oct 2026
• Pavement - General, 120 Ilam Road, 28 Sept 2026
• Street Cleaning, 253 Ilam Rd, 17 Sept 2026
• Overgrown Vegetation, 253 Ilam Road, 9 Sept 2026
• Water Leak, 190 Ilam Road, 8 Sept 2026
• Water Leak, 236 Ilam Rd, 2 Sept 2026
• Damaged Road, 77 Ilam Road, 8 Aug 2026
• Street Cleaning, 64 Ilam Road, 28 Jul 2026
• Litter, 148 Ilam Rd, 26 Jul 2026
• Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 251 Ilam Road, 24 Jul 2026
• Dumped Rubbish, 231 Ilam Road, 23 Jul 2026
• Street Cleaning, 155 Ilam Rd, 3 Jul 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 140 Ilam Rd, 27 May 2026
• Roads - General, 240 Ilam Rd, 26 May 2026
• Hazard, vehicle, 66 Ilam Road, 1 May 2026