Nelson Street
85 reports at 11 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 69 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Nelson Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.
From the air, then
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
- 6 Nelson Street, 17 reports
- 13 Nelson Street, 14 reports
- 1 Nelson Street, 13 reports
- 10E Nelson Street, 8 reports
- 15 Nelson Street, 7 reports
- 16 Nelson Street, 6 reports
- 9 Nelson Street, 5 reports
- 8D Nelson Street, 4 reports
- 7 Nelson Street, 4 reports
- 10 Nelson Street, 4 reports
- 19 Nelson Street, 3 reports
What got reported
- Graffiti & vandalism, 32 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 27 reports
- Water & drains, 11 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 11 reports
- Everything else, 2 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 1 report
- Trees & parks, 1 report
Year by year
- 2017, 6 reports
- 2019, 18 reports
- 2020, 4 reports
- 2021, 2 reports
- 2022, 6 reports
- 2023, 13 reports
- 2024, 21 reports
- 2025, 9 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 162 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:
- Commercial. (Colonist, 06 December 1859)
· Papers Past,
…s of the act such being the case no option remains with the executive council t gowbrowne nelson sth december 1859 public meeting of the motupipi and takaka association held at mb clarks colliers arms…
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 (Wellington Independent, 05 July 1861)
· Papers Past,
…rts richard otago ryan james 65th regt auckland smith h dunedin otugo sayer richard at mr nelson station waipukurau napier 2 speed james no 70 upper york-st syduey stratford mr goulbouru-street sydney…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 2
Premises whose address in the directory is Nelson 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.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Nelson Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Trees - General, 1 Nelson Street,
- General Request, 6 Nelson St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 10E Nelson Street,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 19 Nelson St,
- Water Leak, 15 Nelson St,
- Hazard, vehicle, 1 Nelson Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Nelson Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Nelson Street,
- Damaged Road, 10 Nelson St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Nelson Street,
- Accessibility, 15 Nelson St,
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Nelson Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Nelson Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Nelson Street,
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Nelson Street,
Questions, answered briefly
In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
85 reports at 11 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (32), rubbish & dumping (27), water & drains (11).
2017, the record covers 69 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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