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Harakeke Street

121 reports at 36 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 107 separate days somebody filed something about it.

121 reports36 addresses107 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 659th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Harakeke Street, 20 reports27 Harakeke Street, 9 reports4 Harakeke Street, 8 reports13 Harakeke Street, 7 reports7 Harakeke Street, 6 reports7A Harakeke Street, 5 reports31 Harakeke Street, 5 reports24D Harakeke Street, 5 reports53 Harakeke Street, 4 reports32 Harakeke Street, 4 reports41 Harakeke Street, 3 reports39 Harakeke Street, 3 reports31A Harakeke Street, 3 reports24C Harakeke Street, 3 reports19 Harakeke Street, 3 reports15A Harakeke Street, 3 reports9 Harakeke Street, 2 reports70 Harakeke Street, 2 reports6 Harakeke Street, 2 reports42 Harakeke Street, 2 reports34A Harakeke Street, 2 reports34 Harakeke Street, 2 reports23 Harakeke Street, 2 reports15 Harakeke Street, 2 reports14 Harakeke Street, 2 reports11 Harakeke Street, 2 reports9D Harakeke Street, 1 report73 Harakeke Street, 1 report38 Harakeke Street, 1 report37 Harakeke Street, 1 report30 Harakeke Street, 1 report28 Harakeke Street, 1 report20a Harakeke Street, 1 report18A Harakeke Street, 1 report17A Harakeke Street, 1 report15-17 Harakeke Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Harakeke 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; 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 5 m away Hampton Island island · 297 m away Mandeville Reserve set of steps · 41 m away unnamed jetty · 82 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Harakeke Street in 12 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Animal - Deceased, a report photoPothole, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoWater General, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Harakeke Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Harakeke Street?

121 reports at 36 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (41), water & drains (23), roads & footpaths (21).

When was Harakeke Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 107 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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