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Clarence Street

578 reports at 101 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 350 separate days somebody filed something about it.

578 reports101 addresses350 days reported onfrom the air, then40 documents carry the name11 businessesthe 116th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

134 Clarence Street, 52 reports172 Clarence Street, 51 reports174 Clarence Street, 20 reports169 Clarence Street, 18 reports147A Clarence Street, 18 reports138A Clarence Street, 17 reports181 Clarence Street, 16 reports143 Clarence Street, 16 reports105 Clarence Street, 16 reports199 Clarence Street, 14 reports146 Clarence Street, 13 reports113 Clarence Street, 13 reports182 Clarence Street, 12 reports109 Clarence Street, 12 reports170 Clarence Street, 10 reports165 Clarence Street, 10 reports180 Clarence Street, 9 reports164 Clarence Street, 9 reports147 Clarence Street, 9 reports162 Clarence Street, 8 reports145A Clarence Street, 8 reports141 Clarence Street, 8 reports127 Clarence Street, 8 reports114 Clarence Street, 8 reports108 Clarence Street, 8 reports201 Clarence Street, 7 reports197 Clarence Street, 7 reports188 Clarence Street, 7 reports123 Clarence Street, 7 reports178 Clarence Street, 6 reports171 Clarence Street, 6 reports136 Clarence Street, 6 reports173 Clarence Street, 5 reports163A Clarence Street, 5 reports146E Clarence Street, 5 reports140 Clarence Street, 5 reports129 Clarence Street, 5 reports5/182 Clarence Street, 4 reports184 Clarence Street, 4 reports111 Clarence Street, 4 reports101A Clarence Street, 4 reports92 Clarence Street, 3 reports90 Clarence Street, 3 reports189 Clarence Street, 3 reports186 Clarence Street, 3 reports176 Clarence Street, 3 reports160 Clarence Street, 3 reports153 Clarence Street, 3 reports152 Clarence Street, 3 reports151 Clarence Street, 3 reports145 Clarence Street, 3 reports139 Clarence Street, 3 reports137 Clarence Street, 3 reports126 Clarence Street, 3 reports124D Clarence Street, 3 reports124B Clarence Street, 3 reports103 Clarence Street, 3 reports102 Clarence Street, 3 reports93 Clarence Street, 2 reports86 Clarence Street, 2 reports85 Clarence Street, 2 reports32 Clarence Street, 2 reports177 Clarence Street, 2 reports175-179 Clarence Street, 2 reports148 Clarence Street, 2 reports142 Clarence Street, 2 reports138 Clarence Street, 2 reports128 Clarence Street, 2 reports124A Clarence Street, 2 reports124 Clarence Street, 2 reports112 Clarence Street, 2 reports101 Clarence Street, 2 reports99 Clarence Street, 1 report96 Clarence Street, 1 report4/174 Clarence Street, 1 report2/182 Clarence Street, 1 report185 Clarence Street, 1 report180B Clarence Street, 1 report178-180 Clarence Street, 1 report175 Clarence Street, 1 report167 Clarence Street, 1 report166 Clarence Street, 1 report163 Clarence Street, 1 report158 Clarence Street, 1 report156 Clarence Street, 1 report151-153 Clarence Street, 1 report150 Clarence Street, 1 report149 Clarence Street, 1 report144 Clarence Street, 1 report138B Clarence Street, 1 report137-139 Clarence Street, 1 report135 Clarence Street, 1 report130 Clarence Street, 1 report126C Clarence Street, 1 report123–129 Clarence Street, 1 report120 Clarence Street, 1 report117-123 Clarence Street, 1 report116 Clarence Street, 1 report110-108 Clarence Street, 1 report107–109 Clarence Street, 1 report101C Clarence Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Clarence Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Clarence Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Clarence 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

and the other 41 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 40 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 11

Premises whose address in the directory is Clarence Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Bergman Stream stream · 149 m away unnamed ramp · 11 m away unnamed set of steps · 15 m away unnamed set of steps · 17 m away Clarence Reserve footbridge · 19 m away unnamed set of steps · 21 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Clarence Street in 124 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 23 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Blenheim Road & Clarence Street, 36 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Clarence Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Clarence Street?

578 reports at 101 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (257), rubbish & dumping (132), water & drains (81).

When was Clarence Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 350 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Clarence Street?

Blenheim Road and Clarence Street, 36 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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