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Deans Avenue

227 reports at 44 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 165 separate days somebody filed something about it.

227 reports44 addresses165 days reported onfrom the air, then26 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 387th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

65 Deans Avenue, 50 reports145 Deans Avenue, 31 reports55 Deans Avenue, 15 reports75 Deans Avenue, 14 reports189 Deans Avenue, 11 reports71 Deans Avenue, 9 reports105 Deans Avenue, 8 reports67 Deans Avenue, 7 reports69 Deans Avenue, 6 reports139 Deans Avenue, 6 reports123 Deans Avenue, 6 reports79 Deans Avenue, 5 reports131 Deans Avenue, 5 reports179 Deans Avenue, 4 reports163 Deans Avenue, 4 reports109 Deans Avenue, 4 reports175 Deans Avenue, 3 reports149 Deans Avenue, 3 reports137 Deans Avenue, 3 reports121 Deans Avenue, 3 reports97 Deans Avenue, 2 reports8-26 Deans Avenue, 2 reports73 Deans Avenue, 2 reports159 Deans Avenue, 2 reports147-149 Deans Avenue, 2 reports119 Deans Avenue, 2 reports99 Deans Avenue, 1 report95E Deans Avenue, 1 report81 Deans Avenue, 1 report8 Deans Avenue, 1 report73–79 Deans Avenue, 1 report63 Deans Avenue, 1 report61 Deans Avenue, 1 report35–55 Deans Avenue, 1 report181 Deans Avenue, 1 report169 Deans Avenue, 1 report167A Deans Avenue, 1 report147 Deans Avenue, 1 report139–143 Deans Avenue, 1 report129 Deans Avenue, 1 report127 Deans Avenue, 1 report125–133 Deans Avenue, 1 report121-127 Deans Avenue, 1 report101 Deans Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Deans Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Deans Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Deans 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. 26 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Deans Avenue, 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; Named places within 350 m of a reported pin; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Washbourne Drain stream · 2 m away Riccarton Main Drain stream · 4 m away Washbourne Creek stream · 19 m away The Old Stock Yards ruin · 214 m away Hagley Park South footbridge · 26 m away Hagley Park South shelter · 56 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Deans Avenue in 65 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 13 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Deans Avenue & Riccarton Avenue, 81 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

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Deans Avenue?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Deans Avenue?

227 reports at 44 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (99), roads & footpaths (47), rubbish & dumping (35).

When was Deans Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 165 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Deans Avenue?

Deans Avenue and Riccarton Avenue, 81 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

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