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Hanmer Street

26 reports at 13 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2025. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports13 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then49 documents carry the namethe 2073rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

40 Hanmer Street, 6 reports3 Hanmer Street, 5 reports17 Hanmer Street, 3 reports6 Hanmer Street, 2 reports35 Hanmer Street, 2 reports37 Hanmer Street, 1 report34 Hanmer Street, 1 report28 Hanmer Street, 1 report26 Hanmer Street, 1 report23 Hanmer Street, 1 report22 Hanmer Street, 1 report19 Hanmer Street, 1 report14 Hanmer Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hanmer Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hanmer Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hanmer Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hanmer 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. 49 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 53 m away Beverley Park shelter · 140 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hanmer Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hanmer Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hanmer Street?

26 reports at 13 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (10), water & drains (9), graffiti & vandalism (6).

When was Hanmer Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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