Roberts Road
293 reports at 23 addresses in Islington, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 161 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Roberts Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Islington.
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
- 60 Roberts Road, 72 reports
- 50 Roberts Road, 71 reports
- 90 Roberts Road, 37 reports
- 99 Roberts Road, 29 reports
- 70 Roberts Road, 10 reports
- 29 Roberts Road, 9 reports
- 54 Roberts Road, 8 reports
- 28 Roberts Road, 7 reports
- 74 Roberts Road, 5 reports
- 72 Roberts Road, 5 reports
- 56 Roberts Road, 5 reports
- 44 Roberts Road, 5 reports
- 52 Roberts Road, 4 reports
- 40A Roberts Road, 4 reports
- 40 Roberts Road, 4 reports
- 24 Roberts Road, 4 reports
- 76 Roberts Road, 3 reports
- 25–27 Roberts Road, 3 reports
- 22 Roberts Road, 3 reports
- 46 Roberts Road, 2 reports
- 50 Robert's Road, 1 report
- 42 Roberts Road, 1 report
- 26 Roberts Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 273 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 11 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 5 reports
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 4 reports
- 2018, 2 reports
- 2019, 3 reports
- 2020, 3 reports
- 2021, 25 reports
- 2022, 41 reports
- 2023, 68 reports
- 2024, 75 reports
- 2025, 33 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 24 October 1885)
· Papers Past,
…t papanui road be pipanui road green road rs 324 be cam street fisher road be tame street roberts road be kom street toon road be brio street st albans rood from papanui to dickinsons be st albans roa…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Roberts Road in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 3 seriously hurt.
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.
- LIST OF RETURNED LETTERS. (Lyttelton Times, 08 October 1859) · Lyttelton Times,
- CHRISTCHURCH. (Lyttelton Times, 19 January 1861) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Lyttelton Times, 12 October 1861) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Timaru Herald, 15 September 1869) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Ashburton Guardian, 18 November 1899) · Ashburton Guardian,
- PERSONAL. (Taranaki Daily News 24-11-1910) · Taranaki Daily News,
- TELEGRAMS. (Feilding Star, 02 March 1911) · Feilding Star,
- LATE DOMINION NEWS. (Mataura Ensign 4-12-1911) · Mataura Ensign,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Poverty Bay Herald, 29 June 1911) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 (Ashburton Guardian, 06 September 1911) · Ashburton Guardian,
- ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. (Otago Daily Times 22-3-1913) · Otago Daily Times,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 6 (Evening Post, 07 September 1915) · Evening Post,
- NEW ZEALAND ARMY (Evening Post, 04 July 1916) · Evening Post,
- NEW ZEALAND ARMY (Evening Post, 08 July 1916) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Otago Daily Times 21-9-1918) · Otago Daily Times,
- INTERPROVINCIAL. (Poverty Bay Herald, 02 July 1920) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- N.A.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 15 July 1941) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 09 December 1941) · Evening Post,
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 07 December 1943) · Evening Post,
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 17 February 1944) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 60 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 25–27 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 29 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 74 Roberts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 74 Roberts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 70 Roberts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 29 Roberts Rd,
- Poles and Signage - General, 29 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 50 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 29 Roberts Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 40 Roberts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 60 Roberts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 90 Roberts Road,
- Damaged Street Sign, 90 Roberts Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Islington, Christchurch, New Zealand.
293 reports at 23 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (273), vehicles & parking (11), roads & footpaths (5).
2017, the record covers 161 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Every street the archive knows → · Islington → · This street as a feed →