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McLean Street

37 reports at 20 addresses in Linwood, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

37 reports20 addresses31 days reported onfrom the air, then38 documents carry the namethe 1807th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

69 McLean Street, 8 reports10A McLean Street, 5 reports7 McLean Street, 3 reports41 McLean Street, 3 reports39 McLean Street, 2 reports38 McLean Street, 2 reports66 McLean Street, 1 report65-69 McLean Street, 1 report50B McLean Street, 1 report50 McLean Street, 1 report5-7 McLean Street, 1 report47 McLean Street, 1 report45 McLean Street, 1 report42 McLean Street, 1 report40 McLean Street, 1 report37 McLean Street, 1 report36 McLean Street, 1 report30 McLean Street, 1 report28a McLean Street, 1 report15A McLean Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

McLean Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
McLean Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
McLean 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. 38 on the shelf; the 9 earliest:

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Worcester Reserve footbridge · 98 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names McLean Street in 4 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Linwood wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is McLean Street?

In Linwood, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on McLean Street?

37 reports at 20 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), water & drains (11), rubbish & dumping (4).

When was McLean Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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