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Hawke Street

408 reports at 69 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 284 separate days somebody filed something about it.

408 reports69 addresses284 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then66 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 169th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

55 Hawke Street, 62 reports43 Hawke Street, 56 reports44 Hawke Street, 21 reports67 Hawke Street, 18 reports120 Hawke Street, 16 reports69 Hawke Street, 14 reports40 Hawke Street, 14 reports12 Hawke Street, 12 reports57 Hawke Street, 11 reports150 Hawke Street, 11 reports46 Hawke Street, 10 reports61 Hawke Street, 9 reports49 Hawke Street, 8 reports40E Hawke Street, 8 reports51 Hawke Street, 7 reports47 Hawke Street, 7 reports142 Hawke Street, 7 reports27 Hawke Street, 6 reports100 Hawke Street, 6 reports50 Hawke Street, 5 reports133 Hawke Street, 5 reports132 Hawke Street, 5 reports76 Hawke Street, 4 reports43E Hawke Street, 4 reports38 Hawke Street, 4 reports117 Hawke Street, 4 reports90 Hawke Street, 3 reports88 Hawke Street, 3 reports82 Hawke Street, 3 reports80 Hawke Street, 3 reports74 Hawke Street, 3 reports45 Hawke Street, 3 reports175 Hawke Street, 3 reports134 Hawke Street, 3 reports127 Hawke Street, 3 reports115 Hawke Street, 3 reports70b Hawke Street, 2 reports52 Hawke Street, 2 reports23 Hawke Street, 2 reports146 Hawke Street, 2 reports144 Hawke Street, 2 reports138 Hawke Street, 2 reports129 Hawke Street, 2 reports126 Hawke Street, 2 reports118 Hawke Street, 2 reports112 Hawke Street, 2 reports110 Hawke Street, 2 reports83–91 Hawke Street, 1 report83 Hawke Street, 1 report71 Hawke Street, 1 report70 Hawke Street, 1 report68 Hawke Street, 1 report59 Hawke Street, 1 report46-42 Hawke Street, 1 report42 Hawke Street, 1 report39 Hawke Street, 1 report34 Hawke Street, 1 report26 Hawke Street, 1 report23E Hawke Street, 1 report21 Hawke Street, 1 report131 Hawke Street, 1 report122 Hawke Street, 1 report115-117 Hawke Street, 1 report111 Hawke Street, 1 report109 Hawke Street, 1 report106B Hawke Street, 1 report106A Hawke Street, 1 report105 Hawke Street, 1 report103 Hawke Street, 1 reportSt Faith's Church and Setting: register

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

From the air, then

Hawke Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Hawke Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hawke Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hawke 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 addresses on it

and the other 9 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 66 on the shelf; the 11 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Hawke 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; 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 63 m away New Brighton Beach beach · 99 m away New Brighton Pier pier · 137 m away New Brighton Beach Developed shelter · 69 m away New Brighton Beach Developed shelter · 70 m away New Brighton Beach Developed shelter · 73 m away New Brighton Beach Developed shelter · 75 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hawke Street in 31 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 7 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

The stops on it, 2

2 Metro stops on Hawke Street in New Brighton, in ECan’s stop record: served by route 60.

Every route in the record →

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 fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hawke Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hawke Street?

408 reports at 69 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (296), rubbish & dumping (47), roads & footpaths (22).

When was Hawke Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 284 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Hawke Street?

St Faith's Church and Setting.

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