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Chelsea Street

129 reports at 35 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 98 separate days somebody filed something about it.

129 reports35 addresses98 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the namethe 712th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

52U Chelsea Street, 24 reports43 Chelsea Street, 15 reports52 Chelsea Street, 13 reports56B Chelsea Street, 11 reports18 Chelsea Street, 6 reports34 Chelsea Street, 5 reports60 Chelsea Street, 4 reports54 Chelsea Street, 4 reports50 Chelsea Street, 4 reports48B Chelsea Street, 4 reports42 Chelsea Street, 4 reports58 Chelsea Street, 3 reports41 Chelsea Street, 3 reports12 Chelsea Street, 3 reports6 Chelsea Street, 2 reports48 Chelsea Street, 2 reports39 Chelsea Street, 2 reports32B Chelsea Street, 2 reports14 Chelsea Street, 2 reports91 Chelsea Street, 1 report8 Chelsea Street, 1 report78 Chelsea Street, 1 report74 Chelsea Street, 1 report7 Chelsea Street, 1 report56A Chelsea Street, 1 report56 Chelsea Street, 1 report44 Chelsea Street, 1 report38 Chelsea Street, 1 report36 Chelsea Street, 1 report34A Chelsea Street, 1 report2A Chelsea Street, 1 report28 Chelsea Street, 1 report26 Chelsea Street, 1 report16 Chelsea Street, 1 report1 Chelsea Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Chelsea Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chelsea Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Chelsea Street 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. 16 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Chelsea Street in 7 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.

As it was reported

Sewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoSewer General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Chelsea Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Chelsea Street?

129 reports at 35 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (62), rubbish & dumping (50), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Chelsea Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 98 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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