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Castletown Place

26 reports at 9 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 18 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports9 addresses18 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 2493rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

56 Castletown Place, 6 reports58 Castletown Place, 5 reports51 Castletown Place, 4 reports54 Castletown Place, 3 reports49 Castletown Place, 3 reports66 Castletown Place, 2 reports49-51 Castletown Place, 1 report47 Castletown Place, 1 report44 Castletown Place, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Castletown Place, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is New Brighton.

From the air, then

Castletown Place from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Castletown Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Castletown Place from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Castletown Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Castletown Place from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · 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 crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Castletown Place in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Castletown Place?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Castletown Place?

26 reports at 9 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (17), roads & footpaths (3), water & drains (2).

When was Castletown Place first reported on?

2015, the record covers 18 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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