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Solway Avenue

66 reports at 29 addresses in Ilam, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 59 separate days somebody filed something about it.

66 reports29 addresses59 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1124th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

24A Solway Avenue, 7 reports68 Solway Avenue, 5 reports26 Solway Avenue, 5 reports28 Solway Avenue, 4 reports7 Solway Avenue, 3 reports6 Solway Avenue, 3 reports39 Solway Avenue, 3 reports24 Solway Avenue, 3 reports21 Solway Avenue, 3 reports16 Solway Avenue, 3 reports64 Solway Avenue, 2 reports54 Solway Avenue, 2 reports42E Solway Avenue, 2 reports29A Solway Avenue, 2 reports29 Solway Avenue, 2 reports1A Solway Avenue, 2 reports12 Solway Avenue, 2 reports11 Solway Avenue, 2 reports7A Solway Avenue, 1 report66 Solway Avenue, 1 report60 Solway Avenue, 1 report56 Solway Avenue, 1 report46 Solway Avenue, 1 report34A Solway Avenue, 1 report34 Solway Avenue, 1 report32 Solway Avenue, 1 report23 Solway Avenue, 1 report17 Solway Avenue, 1 report15 Solway Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Solway Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Solway Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Solway Avenue 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.

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 Solway Avenue in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Solway Avenue?

In Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Solway Avenue?

66 reports at 29 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (24), water & drains (23), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Solway Avenue first reported on?

2018, the record covers 59 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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