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Drake Street

1 council report at 1 address on Drake Street, New Brighton, on record since January 2025.

1 report1 address1 day reported onfrom the air, then13 documents carry the name

Where it runs

4 Drake Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Drake Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Drake Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Drake Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Drake Street 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 numbered spots

What got reported

Year by year

Documents that name it

Records on the shelf that name Drake Street, 13 in total; the 11 earliest:

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

The named ground

Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

As it was reported

Latest on record

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Drake Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Drake Street?

1 report at 1 address, most often rubbish & dumping (1).

When was Drake Street first reported on?

2025, the record covers 1 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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