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Kelson Lane

4 reports at 4 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2020, the latest 2025. 4 separate days somebody filed something about it.

4 reports4 addresses4 days reported onfrom the air, then13 documents carry the namethe 4366th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8 Kelson Lane, 1 report7B Kelson Lane, 1 report7 Kelson Lane, 1 report2 Kelson Lane, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Kelson Lane from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kelson Lane from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Kelson Lane 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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 13 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Kelson Lane in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Kelson Lane?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Kelson Lane?

4 reports at 4 addresses, most often water & drains (1), vehicles & parking (1), trees & parks (1).

When was Kelson Lane first reported on?

2020, the record covers 4 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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