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Howe Street

26 reports at 16 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2018, the latest 2025. 26 separate days somebody filed something about it.

26 reports16 addresses26 days reported onfrom the air, then51 documents carry the namethe 2040th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

15 Howe Street, 4 reports7 Howe Street, 3 reports32 Howe Street, 2 reports28 Howe Street, 2 reports23 Howe Street, 2 reports19 Howe Street, 2 reports11 Howe Street, 2 reports5a Howe Street, 1 report36 Howe Street, 1 report35 Howe Street, 1 report31 Howe Street, 1 report24 Howe Street, 1 report21 Howe Street, 1 report11B Howe Street, 1 report1/5 Howe Street, 1 report1 Howe Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 51 on the shelf; the 12 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 open map’s record.

New Brighton Beach beach · 260 m away New Brighton Pier pier · 302 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Howe Street in 2 crashes 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

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDamaged Asset – CCC contractor, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoSewer - Leak / Blockage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Howe Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Howe Street?

26 reports at 16 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (9), graffiti & vandalism (5), vehicles & parking (4).

When was Howe Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 26 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2025.

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