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Rawson Street

42 reports at 18 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 39 separate days somebody filed something about it.

42 reports18 addresses39 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 1571st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

43 Rawson Street, 9 reports47 Rawson Street, 6 reports21 Rawson Street, 4 reports45 Rawson Street, 3 reports37 Rawson Street, 3 reports44 Rawson Street, 2 reports36 Rawson Street, 2 reports19 Rawson Street, 2 reports12 Rawson Street, 2 reports48 Rawson Street, 1 report42 Rawson Street, 1 report38 Rawson Street, 1 report35 Rawson Street, 1 report24 Rawson Street, 1 report2/37 Rawson Street, 1 report17A Rawson Street, 1 report17 Rawson Street, 1 report15 Rawson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 · 69 m away Knights Drain canal · 71 m away Cockayne Reserve wetland · 92 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 140 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rawson Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 1 seriously hurt.

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 photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoAnimal - Deceased, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rawson Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rawson Street?

42 reports at 18 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (12), graffiti & vandalism (11), roads & footpaths (7).

When was Rawson Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 39 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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