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Jervois Street

68 reports at 19 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 56 separate days somebody filed something about it.

68 reports19 addresses56 days reported onfrom the air, then29 documents carry the namethe 1179th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

72 Jervois Street, 8 reports46 Jervois Street, 7 reports24 Jervois Street, 7 reports53 Jervois Street, 6 reports5 Jervois Street, 6 reports47 Jervois Street, 6 reports4 Jervois Street, 4 reports20 Jervois Street, 4 reports45D Jervois Street, 3 reports35 Jervois Street, 3 reports5A Jervois Street, 2 reports49-51 Jervois Street, 2 reports22 Jervois Street, 2 reports17 Jervois Street, 2 reports13 Jervois Street, 2 reports44A Jervois Street, 1 report30 Jervois Street, 1 report18 Jervois Street, 1 report15 Jervois Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Jervois Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Jervois Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Jervois Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Jervois 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. 29 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

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.

Naughty Boys Island wetland · 120 m away New Brighton Beach beach · 129 m away South New Brighton Beach boardwalk · 128 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Jervois Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoLitter, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Pollution - Sediment, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Jervois Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Jervois Street?

68 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (24), rubbish & dumping (12), roads & footpaths (9).

When was Jervois Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 56 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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