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Pratt Street

58 reports at 12 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 50 separate days somebody filed something about it.

58 reports12 addresses50 days reported onfrom the air, then28 documents carry the namethe 1300th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Pratt Street, 19 reports36 Pratt Street, 15 reports6 Pratt Street, 7 reports28 Pratt Street, 7 reports24 Pratt Street, 3 reports30 Pratt Street, 1 report27 Pratt Street, 1 report26 Pratt Street, 1 report20 Pratt Street, 1 report19 Pratt Street, 1 report15 Pratt Street, 1 report12 Pratt Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Pratt Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Pratt Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Pratt Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Pratt 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. 28 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; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 45 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 139 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Pratt Street in 1 crash 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFlooding, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Pratt Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Pratt Street?

58 reports at 12 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (25), rubbish & dumping (21), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Pratt Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 50 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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