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Sinclair Street

64 reports at 30 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 60 separate days somebody filed something about it.

64 reports30 addresses60 days reported onfrom the air, then15 documents carry the namethe 1114th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Sinclair Street, 17 reports58 Sinclair Street, 3 reports54 Sinclair Street, 3 reports36 Sinclair Street, 3 reports17 Sinclair Street, 3 reports16 Sinclair Street, 3 reports80 Sinclair Street, 2 reports53 Sinclair Street, 2 reports52 Sinclair Street, 2 reports51 Sinclair Street, 2 reports35b Sinclair Street, 2 reports20 Sinclair Street, 2 reports14A Sinclair Street, 2 reports14 Sinclair Street, 2 reports9 Sinclair Street, 1 report74 Sinclair Street, 1 report67 Sinclair Street, 1 report61 Sinclair Street, 1 report57 Sinclair Street, 1 report53A Sinclair Street, 1 report46 Sinclair Street, 1 report37 Sinclair Street, 1 report32 Sinclair Street, 1 report3-5 Sinclair Street, 1 report24 Sinclair Street, 1 report18 Sinclair Street, 1 report16a Sinclair Street, 1 report16A Sinclair Street, 1 report15-89 Sinclair Street, 1 report15 Sinclair Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Sinclair Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Sinclair Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sinclair Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Sinclair 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. 15 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Rawhiti Domain set of steps · 107 m away Rawhiti Domain footbridge · 144 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Sinclair Street in 2 crashes 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

Abandoned Vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the New Brighton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Sinclair Street?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Sinclair Street?

64 reports at 30 addresses, most often water & drains (19), graffiti & vandalism (16), rubbish & dumping (14).

When was Sinclair Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 60 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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