Shaw Avenue

762 reports at 51 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 530 separate days somebody filed something about it.

762 reports 51 addresses530 days reported onfrom the air, then 11 documents carry the name 8 businessesthe 40th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Shaw Avenue from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Shaw Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Shaw Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Shaw Avenue 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

100 Shaw Avenue, 152 reports
136 Shaw Avenue, 151 reports
179 Shaw Avenue, 77 reports
183 Shaw Avenue, 47 reports
151 Shaw Avenue, 38 reports
175 Shaw Avenue, 35 reports
99 Shaw Avenue, 31 reports
145 Shaw Avenue, 27 reports
185C Shaw Avenue, 23 reports
42 Shaw Avenue, 17 reports
100A Shaw Avenue, 16 reports
99–153 Shaw Avenue, 15 reports
37 Shaw Avenue, 14 reports
26 Shaw Avenue, 9 reports
153 Shaw Avenue, 9 reports
185 Shaw Avenue, 8 reports
182 Shaw Avenue, 8 reports
138 Shaw Avenue, 8 reports
186 Shaw Avenue, 7 reports
155 Shaw Avenue, 6 reports
40 Shaw Avenue, 5 reports
154 Shaw Avenue, 5 reports
183A Shaw Avenue, 4 reports
176 Shaw Avenue, 4 reports
158 Shaw Avenue, 4 reports
124 Shaw Avenue, 4 reports
25 Shaw Avenue, 3 reports
185a Shaw Avenue, 3 reports
184 Shaw Avenue, 3 reports
148 Shaw Avenue, 3 reports
36 Shaw Avenue, 2 reports
34 Shaw Avenue, 2 reports
185B Shaw Avenue, 2 reports
16B Shaw Avenue, 2 reports
152 Shaw Avenue, 2 reports
60 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
38 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
36A Shaw Avenue, 1 report
35 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
27 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
183-185 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
180–186 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
18-24 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
177 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
172 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
171 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
164C Shaw Avenue, 1 report
162 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
16 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
156 Shaw Avenue, 1 report
150 Shaw Avenue, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 384 reports
Trees & parks, 139 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 101 reports
Roads & footpaths, 61 reports
Water & drains, 39 reports
Everything else, 21 reports
Vehicles & parking, 9 reports
Animals & pests, 7 reports

Year by year

2015, 8 reports
2016, 16 reports
2017, 16 reports
2018, 33 reports
2019, 29 reports
2020, 38 reports
2021, 44 reports
2022, 145 reports
2023, 107 reports
2024, 132 reports
2025, 114 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 11 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 21 Jun 2001
…35 Wakatu Avenue, Redcliffs, Christchurch.Gilmore, Douglas M., occupation unknown, of 158 Shaw Avenue, Christchurch.Gordon, Steven Bryan, company director, of Inlet Road, Kerikeri, Northland.Hana, Ben…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 29 Aug 2002
…eet, Wainoni, Christchurch, at 11.30 a.m.Warlich, Nathalie Veronique, beneficiary, of 175 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch, at 1.30 p.m.20 August 2002Bell, Bruce Gary, artist, of 39 Port Road,…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 13 Mar 2003
…rt, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at 10.32 a.m.McLean, Dwayne John, beneficiary, of 157 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch, at 10.20 a.m.McQuade, Murray John, at 1.25 p.m.Ofanoa, Selaima, of 5B…
List of Public Valuers Under the Valuers Act 1948 · New Zealand Gazette, 28 Jul 2008
…Box 43, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140 11-Apr-1985Coleman, John Douglas 169 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083 24-Oct-1990Collings, Lance Owen DTZ New Zealand, PO Box 142, Chri…
List of Public Valuers Under the Valuers Act 1948 · New Zealand Gazette, 22 Jul 2009
…Box 43, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140 11-Apr-1985Coleman, John Douglas 169 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083 24-Oct-1990Collings, Lance Owen DTZ New Zealand, PO Box 142, Chri…
List of Public Valuers Under the Valuers Act 1948 · New Zealand Gazette, 20 Jul 2010
…Box 43, Christchurch Mail Centre, Christchurch 8140 11-Apr-1985Coleman, John Douglas 169 Shaw Avenue, New Brighton, Christchurch 8083 24-Oct-1990Collings, Lance Owen Darroch Limited, PO Box 142, Chri…

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

The businesses on it, 8

Premises whose address in the directory is Shaw Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Rawhiti Domain ramp · 4 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 13 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 18 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 37 m away Rawhiti Domain ramp · 43 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Shaw Avenue in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.