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Wattle Drive

76 reports at 38 addresses in New Brighton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 69 separate days somebody filed something about it.

76 reports38 addresses69 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 977th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

74 Wattle Drive, 8 reports1 Wattle Drive, 8 reports78D Wattle Drive, 7 reports2 Wattle Drive, 5 reports8 Wattle Drive, 4 reports9 Wattle Drive, 3 reports89 Wattle Drive, 3 reports54 Wattle Drive, 3 reports99 Wattle Drive, 2 reports8A Wattle Drive, 2 reports72 Wattle Drive, 2 reports64 Wattle Drive, 2 reports29 Wattle Drive, 2 reports93 Wattle Drive, 1 report83 Wattle Drive, 1 report78B Wattle Drive, 1 report78A Wattle Drive, 1 report76 Wattle Drive, 1 report75 Wattle Drive, 1 report67 Wattle Drive, 1 report65 Wattle Drive, 1 report63 Wattle Drive, 1 report62 Wattle Drive, 1 report59 Wattle Drive, 1 report56 Wattle Drive, 1 report55 Wattle Drive, 1 report52 Wattle Drive, 1 report5 Wattle Drive, 1 report42 Wattle Drive, 1 report4 Wattle Drive, 1 report39 Wattle Drive, 1 report36 Wattle Drive, 1 report27 Wattle Drive, 1 report22 Wattle Drive, 1 report17 Wattle Drive, 1 report15 Wattle Drive, 1 report103 Wattle Drive, 1 report101 Wattle Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wattle Drive from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Wattle Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wattle Drive from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wattle Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wattle Drive 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 open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wattle Drive in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wattle Drive?

In New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wattle Drive?

76 reports at 38 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (23), graffiti & vandalism (19), water & drains (10).

When was Wattle Drive first reported on?

2015, the record covers 69 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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