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Percy Street

95 reports at 31 addresses in Phillipstown, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 78 separate days somebody filed something about it.

95 reports31 addresses78 days reported onfrom the air, then230 documents carry the namethe 894th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

12 Percy Street, 17 reports18 Percy Street, 13 reports46 Percy Street, 9 reports36 Percy Street, 5 reports11A Percy Street, 5 reports13A Percy Street, 4 reports35 Percy Street, 3 reports2 Percy Street, 3 reports10 Percy Street, 3 reports6 Percy Street, 2 reports40E Percy Street, 2 reports30 Percy Street, 2 reports28 Percy Street, 2 reports24 Percy Street, 2 reports20A Percy Street, 2 reports18B Percy Street, 2 reports17 Percy Street, 2 reports15 Percy Street, 2 reports14 Percy Street, 2 reports13 Percy Street, 2 reports40 Percy Street, 1 report38 Percy Street, 1 report37 Percy Street, 1 report34 Percy Street, 1 report31 Percy Street, 1 report23 Percy Street, 1 report19 Percy Street, 1 report18A Percy Street, 1 report16 Percy Street, 1 report11 Percy Street, 1 report1/20 Percy Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Percy Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Percy Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Percy Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Percy 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. 230 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

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

Water Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Phillipstown wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Percy Street?

In Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Percy Street?

95 reports at 31 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (70), water & drains (11), everything else (7).

When was Percy Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 78 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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