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Richards Avenue

34 reports at 25 addresses in PAPANUI, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 33 separate days somebody filed something about it.

34 reports25 addresses33 days reported onfrom the air, then17 documents carry the namethe 1749th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

21 Richards Avenue, 5 reports19 Richards Avenue, 3 reports30 Richards Avenue, 2 reports26 Richards Avenue, 2 reports15A Richards Avenue, 2 reports9 Richards Avenue, 1 report8 Richards Avenue, 1 report51 Richards Avenue, 1 report5 Richards Avenue, 1 report49 Richards Avenue, 1 report47a Richards Avenue, 1 report46A Richards Avenue, 1 report46 Richards Avenue, 1 report43A Richards Avenue, 1 report41 Richards Avenue, 1 report39 Richards Avenue, 1 report38 Richards Avenue, 1 report37 Richards Avenue, 1 report29 Richards Avenue, 1 report23 Richards Avenue, 1 report20 Richards Avenue, 1 report2 Richards Avenue, 1 report14 Richards Avenue, 1 report13 Richards Avenue, 1 report12 Richards Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Richards Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richards Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richards Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Richards Avenue 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. 17 on the shelf; the 10 earliest:

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 Richards Avenue?

In PAPANUI, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Richards Avenue?

34 reports at 25 addresses, most often water & drains (9), roads & footpaths (9), rubbish & dumping (5).

When was Richards Avenue first reported on?

2018, the record covers 33 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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