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Owles Terrace

204 reports at 31 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 167 separate days somebody filed something about it.

204 reports31 addresses167 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 382nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

60 Owles Terrace, 43 reports62 Owles Terrace, 39 reports53 Owles Terrace, 36 reports5 Owles Terrace, 18 reports65 Owles Terrace, 10 reports80 Owles Terrace, 7 reports83 Owles Terrace, 5 reports53B Owles Terrace, 5 reports29 Owles Terrace, 5 reports20 Owles Terrace, 4 reports87 Owles Terrace, 3 reports67 Owles Terrace, 3 reports11 Owles Terrace, 3 reports85A Owles Terrace, 2 reports85 Owles Terrace, 2 reports73 Owles Terrace, 2 reports56 Owles Terrace, 2 reports33-63 Owles Terrace, 2 reports83-85 Owles Terrace, 1 report81 Owles Terrace, 1 report78 Owles Terrace, 1 report71 Owles Terrace, 1 report70 Owles Terrace, 1 report59 Owles Terrace, 1 report58 Owles Terrace, 1 report55 Owles Terrace, 1 report51 Owles Terrace, 1 report34 Owles Terrace, 1 report31–53 Owles Terrace, 1 report25 Owles Terrace, 1 report17 Owles Terrace, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Owles Terrace from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Owles Terrace from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Owles Terrace from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Owles Terrace 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 →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Owles Terrace in 5 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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 Owles Terrace?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Owles Terrace?

204 reports at 31 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (80), graffiti & vandalism (46), trees & parks (29).

When was Owles Terrace first reported on?

2015, the record covers 167 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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