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Sutton Quay

30 reports at 4 addresses in Lyttelton, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.

30 reports4 addresses26 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2037th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

11 Sutton Quay, 11 reports3 Sutton Quay, 9 reports7 Sutton Quay, 8 reports15 Sutton Quay, 2 reports

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

From the air, then

Sutton Quay from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Sutton Quay from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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.

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

The named ground

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

Lyttelton War Memorial set of steps · 44 m away Sutton Reserve set of steps · 122 m away Sutton Reserve set of steps · 124 m away

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

Facility - General Request, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photoLitter, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Lyttelton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sutton Quay?

In Lyttelton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sutton Quay?

30 reports at 4 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (12), water & drains (4), rubbish & dumping (4).

When was Sutton Quay first reported on?

2021, the record covers 26 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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