Straven Road

210 reports at 56 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 176 separate days somebody filed something about it.

210 reports 56 addresses176 days reported onfrom the air, then 30 documents carry the name 5 businessesthe 359th 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 Straven Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Riccarton.

From the air, then

Straven Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Straven Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Straven Road 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

43 Straven Road, 26 reports
5 Straven Road, 25 reports
53 Straven Road, 10 reports
50 Straven Road, 8 reports
7A Straven Road, 7 reports
23 Straven Road, 7 reports
17 Straven Road, 7 reports
6 Straven Road, 6 reports
28 Straven Road, 6 reports
8 Straven Road, 5 reports
6A Straven Road, 5 reports
61 Straven Road, 5 reports
45 Straven Road, 5 reports
20 Straven Road, 5 reports
51 Straven Road, 4 reports
48 Straven Road, 4 reports
41 Straven Road, 4 reports
4 Straven Road, 4 reports
3A Straven Road, 4 reports
37 Straven Road, 4 reports
34 Straven Road, 4 reports
15 Straven Road, 4 reports
10 Straven Road, 4 reports
7 Straven Road, 3 reports
3 Straven Road, 3 reports
14 Straven Road, 3 reports
7B Straven Road, 2 reports
58 Straven Road, 2 reports
49 Straven Road, 2 reports
33 Straven Road, 2 reports
2B Straven Road, 2 reports
2 Straven Road, 2 reports
12 Straven Road, 2 reports
11 Straven Road, 2 reports
9 Straven Road, 1 report
60A Straven Road, 1 report
59 Straven Road, 1 report
57 Straven Road, 1 report
55 Straven Road, 1 report
52 Straven Road, 1 report
46A Straven Road, 1 report
42 Straven Road, 1 report
3B Straven Road, 1 report
39 Straven Road, 1 report
31-33 Straven Road, 1 report
3-5 Straven Road, 1 report
29 Straven Road, 1 report
27 Straven Road, 1 report
26 Straven Road, 1 report
24 Straven Road, 1 report
22 Straven Road, 1 report
19 Straven Road, 1 report
13E Straven Road, 1 report
13 Straven Road, 1 report
11A Straven Road, 1 report
10A Straven Road, 1 report

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 102 reports
Roads & footpaths, 58 reports
Water & drains, 23 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 10 reports
Trees & parks, 10 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Everything else, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 5 reports
2016, 8 reports
2017, 12 reports
2018, 14 reports
2019, 15 reports
2020, 7 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 23 reports
2023, 32 reports
2024, 45 reports
2025, 31 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 30 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 28 September 1907) · Papers Past, 28 Sept 1907
…iccarton corner sectiori 55 x j 132ft only 105 folio 250 fanning and co or sale riccarton straven road river frontage nearly fracre only 207 fanning and co estate agents 156 oashell street 7882 busine…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 13 December 1907) · Papers Past, 13 Dec 1907
…subdivision are on the books for re-sale and easy terms can be given 486 riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per acre cashmere hills we have sold 97 sections out of 106 a…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 28 December 1907) · Papers Past, 28 Dec 1907
…ooks for ie-sale and easy terms can be j invv ve b m important important riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per hairs on the face merivale winchester street charm t adie…
Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 02 January 1908) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1908
…subdivision are on the books for re-sale and easy terms can be given 486 riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per acre meeivale winchester street t charm ing eesidence of…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 08 January 1908) · Papers Past, 8 Jan 1908
…subdivision are on the books for re-sale and easy terms can be given 486 riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per acre merivale winchester street charm ing residence of 6…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 15 January 1908) · Papers Past, 15 Jan 1908
…description a rare p chance apply at once as only open for a k week 408 biccarton estate straven road pour splendid building sites at 450 per tore mebivale winchester street charm ing residence of 6…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 24 January 1908) · Papers Past, 24 Jan 1908
…any description a rare chance apply at once as only open for a week 408 riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 perf acre merivale winchester street charm ing residence of 6…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 31 January 1908) · Papers Past, 31 Jan 1908
…any description a rare chance apply at once as only open for a week 408 riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per ere merivale winchester street charm ing residence of 6 r…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 05 February 1908) · Papers Past, 5 Feb 1908
…45 per foot or offer it is the best corner for sale in manchester street riccarton estate straven road four splendid building sites at 450 per acre st albans hawkesbury street new house 6 rooms bathro…
Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 16 January 1909) · Papers Past, 16 Jan 1909
…use j-acre land in lawn and garden price only 525 a bargain 754 charles clark riccarton i straven road opposite the bush fine position grand section about 83ft frontage by 198 ft deep only 210 easy te…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 20 January 1909) · Papers Past, 20 Jan 1909
…house 1-acre land in lawn and garden price only 525 a bargain 754 charles clark eiccaeton straven road opposite the bush fine position grand section about 83ft frontage by 198 ft deep only 210 easy te…
Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 22 January 1909) · Papers Past, 22 Jan 1909
…house i-acre land in lawn and garden price only 525 a bargain 754 charles clark riccarton straven road opposite the bubh fine position grand section about 83ft frontage by 198 ft deep only 210 easy te…

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

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

Christchurch Boys' High School, Secondary (Year 9-15) · decile 10 · EQI 418 · roll 1,403

The businesses on it, 5

Premises whose address in the directory is Straven Road, 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.

Avon River / Ōtākaro river · 8 m away unnamed jetty · 14 m away unnamed ramp · 84 m away unnamed set of steps · 93 m away unnamed ramp · 100 m away unnamed set of steps · 106 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Straven Road in 55 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 5 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Riccarton Road & Straven Road, 68 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.