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Tara Street

29 reports at 5 addresses in Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 25 separate days somebody filed something about it.

29 reports5 addresses25 days reported onfrom the air, then9 documents carry the namethe 2079th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

5A Tara Street, 12 reports5 Tara Street, 8 reports4 Tara Street, 4 reports1 Tara Street, 4 reports2-4 Tara Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Tara Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tara Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Tara 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. 9 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Paeroa Reserve set of steps · 77 m away Paeroa Reserve footbridge · 96 m away

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.

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoGraffiti on a playground or in a park, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish/Recycling, a report photoGraffiti, a report photoGraffiti, a report photo more photographs
on the Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Tara Street?

In Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Tara Street?

29 reports at 5 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (10), rubbish & dumping (9), water & drains (6).

When was Tara Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 25 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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