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Bealey Avenue

80 reports at 22 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 71 separate days somebody filed something about it.

80 reports22 addresses71 days reported onfrom the air, then513 documents carry the name11 businessesthe 957th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

3 Bealey Avenue, 16 reports21A Bealey Avenue, 11 reports1 Bealey Avenue, 9 reports15 Bealey Avenue, 6 reports19 Bealey Avenue, 5 reports21 Bealey Avenue, 4 reports1A Bealey Avenue, 4 reports24 Bealey Avenue, 3 reports17 Bealey Avenue, 3 reports9 Bealey Avenue, 2 reports43 Bealey Avenue, 2 reports21K Bealey Avenue, 2 reports21F Bealey Avenue, 2 reports20 Bealey Avenue, 2 reports10 Bealey Avenue, 2 reports5 Bealey Avenue, 1 report45 Bealey Avenue, 1 report23-41 Bealey Avenue, 1 report21B Bealey Avenue, 1 report1B Bealey Avenue, 1 report16 Bealey Avenue, 1 report11 Bealey Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Bealey Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bealey Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Bealey Avenue 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. 513 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 11

Premises whose address in the directory is Bealey Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

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

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 10 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Bealey Avenue in 59 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 15 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Bealey Avenue & Manchester Street, 111 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.

Heard on the wire

Public posts that name the street: relayed, not verified.

As it was reported

Pothole, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoWater General, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Bealey Avenue?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Bealey Avenue?

80 reports at 22 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (29), graffiti & vandalism (21), water & drains (15).

When was Bealey Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 71 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Bealey Avenue?

Bealey Avenue and Manchester Street, 111 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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