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Paddington Street

82 reports at 28 addresses in Northcote, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 77 separate days somebody filed something about it.

82 reports28 addresses77 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the namethe 906th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Paddington Street, 16 reports17 Paddington Street, 13 reports1 Paddington Street, 8 reports26 Paddington Street, 5 reports3344463/21 Paddington Street, 4 reports4 Paddington Street, 3 reports33 Paddington Street, 3 reports31 Paddington Street, 3 reports35 Paddington Street, 2 reports30 Paddington Street, 2 reports24 Paddington Street, 2 reports20 Paddington Street, 2 reports2 Paddington Street, 2 reports18 Paddington Street, 2 reports14 Paddington Street, 2 reports7 Paddington Street, 1 report6 Paddington Street, 1 report40E Paddington Street, 1 report37-39 Paddington Street, 1 report37 Paddington Street, 1 report36 Paddington Street, 1 report32 Paddington Street, 1 report3 Paddington Street, 1 report29 Paddington Street, 1 report28 Paddington Street, 1 report22 Paddington Street, 1 report16 Paddington Street, 1 report13-23 Paddington Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Paddington Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Paddington Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Paddington Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Paddington Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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.

Railway Drain drain · 82 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Paddington Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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

Animal - Domestic, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoLitter, a report photo more photographs
on the Northcote wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Paddington Street?

In Northcote, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Paddington Street?

82 reports at 28 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (26), trees & parks (21), graffiti & vandalism (16).

When was Paddington Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 77 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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