Picton Avenue

548 reports at 91 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 409 separate days somebody filed something about it.

548 reports 91 addresses409 days reported onfrom the air, then 51 documents carry the namethe 70th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Picton Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Picton Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Picton 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

69 Picton Avenue, 37 reports
61 Picton Avenue, 24 reports
85 Picton Avenue, 22 reports
63 Picton Avenue, 22 reports
51A Picton Avenue, 16 reports
40B Picton Avenue, 16 reports
65 Picton Avenue, 15 reports
20A Picton Avenue, 15 reports
49 Picton Avenue, 13 reports
29 Picton Avenue, 13 reports
76A Picton Avenue, 12 reports
47 Picton Avenue, 12 reports
44A Picton Avenue, 12 reports
91 Picton Avenue, 11 reports
57 Picton Avenue, 11 reports
106 Picton Avenue, 11 reports
66 Picton Avenue, 10 reports
17 Picton Avenue, 10 reports
30 Picton Avenue, 9 reports
14 Picton Avenue, 9 reports
89-91 Picton Avenue, 8 reports
19 Picton Avenue, 8 reports
15 Picton Avenue, 8 reports
81 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
74 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
42A Picton Avenue, 7 reports
41 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
37 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
26 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
24 Picton Avenue, 7 reports
77 Picton Avenue, 6 reports
67 Picton Avenue, 6 reports
35A Picton Avenue, 6 reports
106E Picton Avenue, 6 reports
82 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
80a Picton Avenue, 5 reports
62 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
33 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
22 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
104 Picton Avenue, 5 reports
98 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
94 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
86 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
84 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
75 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
60 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
58 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
55 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
51 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
40D Picton Avenue, 4 reports
38 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
36E Picton Avenue, 4 reports
35 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
25 Picton Avenue, 4 reports
21A Picton Avenue, 4 reports
96B Picton Avenue, 3 reports
89 Picton Avenue, 3 reports
52A Picton Avenue, 3 reports
23 Picton Avenue, 3 reports
21 Picton Avenue, 3 reports

and the other 31 the record names

16 Picton Avenue, 3 reports
102 Picton Avenue, 3 reports
70 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
53-55 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
53 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
52B Picton Avenue, 2 reports
52-50 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
48A Picton Avenue, 2 reports
40A Picton Avenue, 2 reports
34 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
28 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
27 Picton Avenue, 2 reports
18A Picton Avenue, 2 reports
90 Picton Avenue, 1 report
78 Picton Avenue, 1 report
76B Picton Avenue, 1 report
73-77 Picton Avenue, 1 report
66-68 Picton Avenue, 1 report
64 Picton Avenue, 1 report
61-71 Picton Avenue, 1 report
56 Picton Avenue, 1 report
55C Picton Avenue, 1 report
53A Picton Avenue, 1 report
46 Picton Avenue, 1 report
45 Picton Avenue, 1 report
40 Picton Avenue, 1 report
37-41 Picton Avenue, 1 report
32 Picton Avenue, 1 report
31 Picton Avenue, 1 report
24A Picton Avenue, 1 report
20C Picton Avenue, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 186 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 109 reports
Water & drains, 100 reports
Trees & parks, 64 reports
Roads & footpaths, 63 reports
Vehicles & parking, 15 reports
Everything else, 10 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 2 reports
2017, 13 reports
2018, 22 reports
2019, 56 reports
2020, 34 reports
2021, 24 reports
2022, 72 reports
2023, 84 reports
2024, 113 reports
2025, 78 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 51 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

LOCAL AND GENERAL. (Star, 17 August 1903) · Papers Past, 17 Aug 1903
…ir amyes to mr beauchamp one acre land tancred street m riordan to thomas mill block jand picton avenue chas huhton to mr bultitude blook land lower ricarton geo simpson to a burn two 5-roomed housei…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 01 July 1905) · Papers Past, 1 Jul 1905
…areas including west belt i 500 ter acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each 1 deans street 5 acres 200 per acre 00trtt street only 3 chains from colombo streptvalua…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 08 July 1905) · Papers Past, 8 Jul 1905
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 200 per acre armagh street only 3 chains from colombo street valuab…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 12 July 1905) · Papers Past, 12 Jul 1905
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagiey street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 200 per acre armagh stkeet only 8 chains from colombo street valuab…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 26 July 1905) · Papers Past, 26 Jul 1905
…ous areas including west belt 500 per acre hagey street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estae 5 acres 210 per acre armaixji sjiw-ikl 1 only cnains irom colombo street val…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 28 July 1905) · Papers Past, 28 Jul 1905
…us areas including west belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 eaoh ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per aore armagh street only 8 chains from colombo street valuab…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 04 August 1905) · Papers Past, 4 Aug 1905
…areas including rweert belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per acre armagh street only 3 ctauns from colombo street valuab…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 09 August 1905) · Papers Past, 9 Aug 1905
…ous areas includingwest belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 475 each deans estate 5 acres 210 per acre akmagh street only 8 chains from colombo street valua…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 30 August 1905) · Papers Past, 30 Aug 1905
…ous areas includingwest belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 eaoh papanui road and just ofl several nice residential properties in this favourite b locali…
Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 06 September 1905) · Papers Past, 6 Sept 1905
…us areas including west belt 500 per ftfe hagley street 2 quarters 95 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 4575 eaoh papanui road and jtut l off-ev-ral nice residential properties in this favourite local…
Page 7 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 16 September 1905) · Papers Past, 16 Sept 1905
…ous a b including west belt 500 per acre hftgley street 2 quarters 95 e-aoh aw street 110 picton avenue 75 eaoh papanui road and just off several nice residential properties in this favourite locality…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 September 1905) · Papers Past, 20 Sept 1905
…f tbrisu including-weat belt 500 per acre hagley street 2 quarters 25 each ayr street 110 picton avenue 75 each papanui road and just ofi several nice residential properties in thisavorarite cashmere…

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

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 · 2 m away Riccarton Main Drain stream · 5 m away Picton Reserve boardwalk · 4 m away Picton Reserve set of steps · 5 m away Picton Reserve footbridge · 8 m away Picton Reserve set of steps · 11 m away Picton Reserve boardwalk · 12 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Picton Avenue in 27 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.