Old Tai Tapu Road

47 reports at 26 addresses in Kennedys Bush, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 43 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports 26 addresses43 days reported onfrom the air, then 4 documents carry the name 1 businessesthe 1448th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Old Tai Tapu Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Kennedys Bush.

From the air, then

Old Tai Tapu Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Old Tai Tapu Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Old Tai Tapu Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Old Tai Tapu Road 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

Roads & footpaths, 31 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
Trees & parks, 5 reports
Water & drains, 4 reports
Everything else, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2016, 1 report
2017, 3 reports
2018, 5 reports
2019, 4 reports
2020, 2 reports
2022, 1 report
2023, 5 reports
2024, 2 reports
2025, 13 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Tai Tapu War Memorial · Canterbury Stories, 14 Dec 2007
The arch of the Tai Tapu War Memorial at the entrance to Rhodes Park Reserve on Old Tai Tapu Road. Cafe Cecil collection…
Tai Tapu roll of honour · Canterbury Stories, 14 Dec 2007
…d in the Second World War on the memorial gates at the entrance to Rhodes Park Reserve on Old Tai Tapu Road. Cafe Cecil collection…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10 · New Zealand Gazette, 1 Sept 2010
…south of Candys Road. 60 1/09/2010, No 112, page 2967887 11 75 Tai Tapu From 85m north of Old Tai Tapu Road to 80m south of Michaels Road. 50 1/09/2010, No 112, page 2967888 11 75 Little River From 20…
Objections to Proposed Boundaries of Electoral Districts of New Zealand · New Zealand Gazette, 14 Jan 2014
…two small areas isolated from their communities.Suggested solution: Include all houses on Old Tai Tapu Road in the Selwyn electorate by cutting through paddock land between the end of Halswell and bef…

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Old Tai Tapu Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The Bicycle ThiefRestaurants · 136 Old Tai Tapu Road, Kennedys Bush

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Halswell River river · 10 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Old Tai Tapu Road in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.