Tovey Street

58 reports at 17 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 55 separate days somebody filed something about it.

58 reports 17 addresses55 days reported onfrom the air, then 1 document carry the namethe 1196th 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 Tovey Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is New Brighton.

From the air, then

Tovey Street from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Tovey Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Tovey Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Tovey 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

75 Tovey Street, 20 reports
64 Tovey Street, 11 reports
62 Tovey Street, 4 reports
65 Tovey Street, 3 reports
46 Tovey Street, 3 reports
59 Tovey Street, 2 reports
49 Tovey Street, 2 reports
40 Tovey Street, 2 reports
35 Tovey Street, 2 reports
30 Tovey Street, 2 reports
56 Tovey Street, 1 report
5 Tovey Street, 1 report
36 Tovey Street, 1 report
28 Tovey Street, 1 report
19 Tovey Street, 1 report
17 Tovey Street, 1 report
11-17 Tovey Street, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 20 reports
Trees & parks, 16 reports
Water & drains, 7 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 7 reports
Roads & footpaths, 6 reports
Everything else, 1 report
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 6 reports
2016, 3 reports
2017, 3 reports
2018, 3 reports
2019, 1 report
2020, 3 reports
2021, 2 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 8 reports
2024, 7 reports
2025, 12 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Dickson Home. · Canterbury Stories, 1 Jan 1920
14 Bligh Street (now Tovey Street) New Brighton 2010 Photo Hunt…

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; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Naughty Boys Island wetland · 85 m away New Brighton Beach beach · 146 m away South New Brighton Beach boardwalk · 146 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Tovey Street in 3 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.