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Surfers Place

59 reports at 18 addresses in North New Brighton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 51 separate days somebody filed something about it.

59 reports18 addresses51 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1274th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Surfers Place, 21 reports19 Surfers Place, 13 reports19A Surfers Place, 5 reports15 Surfers Place, 3 reports3 Surfers Place, 2 reports21 Surfers Place, 2 reports11 Surfers Place, 2 reports8 Surfers Place, 1 report7 Surfers Place, 1 report6 Surfers Place, 1 report34 Surfers Place, 1 report30B Surfers Place, 1 report26 Surfers Place, 1 report20 Surfers Place, 1 report16 Surfers Place, 1 report14 Surfers Place, 1 report12 Surfers Place, 1 report10 Surfers Place, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Surfers Place from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Surfers Place from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Surfers Place from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Surfers Place from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Surfers Place 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 →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Surfers Place?

In North New Brighton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Surfers Place?

59 reports at 18 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (30), rubbish & dumping (10), roads & footpaths (7).

When was Surfers Place first reported on?

2016, the record covers 51 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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