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Desmond Street

44 reports at 14 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 41 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports14 addresses41 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1514th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Desmond Street, 10 reports20 Desmond Street, 7 reports4 Desmond Street, 4 reports29 Desmond Street, 4 reports27 Desmond Street, 4 reports10 Desmond Street, 4 reports24 Desmond Street, 2 reports19 Desmond Street, 2 reports14 Desmond Street, 2 reports5 Desmond Street, 1 report26 Desmond Street, 1 report17 Desmond Street, 1 report15E Desmond Street, 1 report11 Desmond Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Desmond Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Desmond Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Desmond 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.

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 · 45 m away Millbrook Reserve footbridge · 121 m away Millbrook Reserve set of steps · 126 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

General Request, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Desmond Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Desmond Street?

44 reports at 14 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (15), water & drains (9), rubbish & dumping (9).

When was Desmond Street first reported on?

2021, the record covers 41 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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