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Darvel Street

90 reports at 28 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 81 separate days somebody filed something about it.

90 reports28 addresses81 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 863rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

31 Darvel Street, 9 reports30 Darvel Street, 8 reports37 Darvel Street, 7 reports27B Darvel Street, 7 reports20 Darvel Street, 7 reports15 Darvel Street, 6 reports22 Darvel Street, 5 reports13 Darvel Street, 5 reports19B Darvel Street, 4 reports19A Darvel Street, 4 reports41 Darvel Street, 3 reports14 Darvel Street, 3 reports31A Darvel Street, 2 reports3 Darvel Street, 2 reports27 Darvel Street, 2 reports21 Darvel Street, 2 reports12 Darvel Street, 2 reports1/33 Darvel Street, 2 reports33 Darvel Street, 1 report29A Darvel Street, 1 report28 Darvel Street, 1 report24 Darvel Street, 1 report20E Darvel Street, 1 report19C Darvel Street, 1 report19 Darvel Street, 1 report18 Darvel Street, 1 report17 Darvel Street, 1 report10 Darvel Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Darvel Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Darvel Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Darvel 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. 4 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Darvel 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.

Washbourne Drain stream · 101 m away Mona Vale set of steps · 149 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Darvel Street in 9 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Darvel Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Darvel Street?

90 reports at 28 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (20), water & drains (19), rubbish & dumping (16).

When was Darvel Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 81 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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