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Heaton Street

150 reports at 55 addresses in Merivale, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 128 separate days somebody filed something about it.

150 reports55 addresses128 days reported on3 on the registerfrom the air, then34 documents carry the name4 businessesthe 541st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Heaton Street, 20 reports83 Heaton Street, 8 reports7 Heaton Street, 7 reports54 Heaton Street, 6 reports81 Heaton Street, 5 reports68 Heaton Street, 5 reports170 Heaton Street, 5 reports1 Heaton Street, 5 reports85 Heaton Street, 4 reports83A Heaton Street, 4 reports15–21 Heaton Street, 4 reports115 Heaton Street, 4 reports112A Heaton Street, 4 reports83B Heaton Street, 3 reports80 Heaton Street, 3 reports74 Heaton Street, 3 reports62 Heaton Street, 3 reports163 Heaton Street, 3 reports16 Heaton Street, 3 reports130 Heaton Street, 3 reports113 Heaton Street, 3 reports78 Heaton Street, 2 reports70 Heaton Street, 2 reports50 Heaton Street, 2 reports5 Heaton Street, 2 reports36 Heaton Street, 2 reports30 Heaton Street, 2 reports167 Heaton Street, 2 reports165 Heaton Street, 2 reports138 Heaton Street, 2 reports123 Heaton Street, 2 reports121 Heaton Street, 2 reports98 Heaton Street, 1 report95 Heaton Street, 1 report92 Heaton Street, 1 report84 Heaton Street, 1 report75 Heaton Street, 1 report64 Heaton Street, 1 report42 Heaton Street, 1 report34 Heaton Street, 1 report3 Heaton Street, 1 report23 Heaton Street, 1 report162 Heaton Street, 1 report158 Heaton Street, 1 report142-132 Heaton Street, 1 report139 Heaton Street, 1 report135 Heaton Street, 1 report133 Heaton Street, 1 report132 Heaton Street, 1 report125 Heaton Street, 1 report122 Heaton Street, 1 report120-122 Heaton Street, 1 report119 Heaton Street, 1 report118 Heaton Street, 1 report117 Heaton Street, 1 reportDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Heaton Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Merivale.

From the air, then

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

On the register

On foot, The houses the avenues kept walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 34 on the shelf; the 12 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 businesses on it, 4

Premises whose address in the directory is Heaton Street, 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Taylor's Drain stream · 18 m away Wairarapa Stream stream · 101 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 5 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 19 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 29 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 32 m away Elmwood Park ramp · 58 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Heaton Street in 28 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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 playground or in a park, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPublic Toilet, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoPlayground Equipment, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photo more photographs
on the Merivale wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Heaton Street?

In Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Heaton Street?

150 reports at 55 addresses, most often trees & parks (40), graffiti & vandalism (36), water & drains (26).

When was Heaton Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 128 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Heaton Street?

Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.

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