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Rotherham Street

133 reports at 25 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 111 separate days somebody filed something about it.

133 reports25 addresses111 days reported onfrom the air, thenthen / now18 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 632nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Rotherham Street, 19 reports14 Rotherham Street, 17 reports1 Rotherham Street, 15 reports48 Rotherham Street, 14 reports37 Rotherham Street, 8 reports42 Rotherham Street, 7 reports34 Rotherham Street, 7 reports37-41 Rotherham Street, 5 reports11 Rotherham Street, 5 reports4 Rotherham Street, 4 reports35 Rotherham Street, 4 reports25 Rotherham Street, 4 reports10 Rotherham Street, 4 reports5 Rotherham Street, 3 reports27 Rotherham Street, 3 reports46 Rotherham Street, 2 reports28 Rotherham Street, 2 reports23 Rotherham Street, 2 reports21 Rotherham Street, 2 reports9 Rotherham Street, 1 report8 Rotherham Street, 1 report6 Rotherham Street, 1 report409 Rotherham Street, 1 report129 Rotherham Street, 1 report12 Rotherham Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

Then and now

Rotherham Street at night
Then, 2005 · Rotherham Street at night
Now: Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Rotherham Street in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Drexels). The whole collection, oldest first →

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. 18 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 6

Premises whose address in the directory is Rotherham Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

unnamed set of steps · 81 m away unnamed ramp · 83 m away unnamed set of steps · 90 m away unnamed set of steps · 95 m away unnamed ramp · 100 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Rotherham Street in 16 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Water General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPoles and Signage - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Rotherham Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Rotherham Street?

133 reports at 25 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (48), roads & footpaths (35), rubbish & dumping (31).

When was Rotherham Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 111 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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