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Garden Road

35 reports at 27 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

35 reports27 addresses31 days reported onfrom the air, thenthe 1811th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

33 Garden Road, 3 reports57 Garden Road, 2 reports52 Garden Road, 2 reports50a Garden Road, 2 reports41 Garden Road, 2 reports3 Garden Road, 2 reports11B Garden Road, 2 reports71 Garden Road, 1 report69 Garden Road, 1 report68 Garden Road, 1 report67 Garden Road, 1 report65 Garden Road, 1 report62 Garden Road, 1 report55 Garden Road, 1 report50A Garden Road, 1 report50 Garden Road, 1 report40 Garden Road, 1 report36 Garden Road, 1 report31A Garden Road, 1 report30A Garden Road, 1 report29 Garden Road, 1 report26 Garden Road, 1 report17 Garden Road, 1 report16 Garden Road, 1 report11A Garden Road, 1 report11 Garden Road, 1 report10 Garden Road, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Garden Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Garden Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Garden Road 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

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.

Wairarapa Stream stream · 4 m away Old Carlton Mill water race drain · 15 m away unnamed road bridge · 7 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

Water Leak, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Garden Road?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Garden Road?

35 reports at 27 addresses, most often water & drains (11), roads & footpaths (6), everything else (6).

When was Garden Road first reported on?

2020, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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