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Avalon Street

117 reports at 31 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 106 separate days somebody filed something about it.

117 reports31 addresses106 days reported onfrom the air, then4 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 664th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

40 Avalon Street, 22 reports48 Avalon Street, 11 reports57 Avalon Street, 9 reports60 Avalon Street, 6 reports41 Avalon Street, 6 reports38 Avalon Street, 5 reports32 Avalon Street, 5 reports27 Avalon Street, 5 reports74 Avalon Street, 4 reports73 Avalon Street, 4 reports54 Avalon Street, 4 reports79 Avalon Street, 3 reports56E Avalon Street, 3 reports36 Avalon Street, 3 reports28 Avalon Street, 3 reports24 Avalon Street, 3 reports20 Avalon Street, 3 reports81 Avalon Street, 2 reports56 Avalon Street, 2 reports51 Avalon Street, 2 reports37 Avalon Street, 2 reports85 Avalon Street, 1 report8 Avalon Street, 1 report62 Avalon Street, 1 report57A Avalon Street, 1 report50 Avalon Street, 1 report43 Avalon Street, 1 report39 Avalon Street, 1 report36-40 Avalon Street, 1 report31 Avalon Street, 1 report14A Avalon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Avalon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Avalon Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Avalon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Avalon 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.

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

The businesses on it, 3

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Avalon Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.

As it was reported

Overgrown Vegetation, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoAnimal - Deceased, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Avalon Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Avalon Street?

117 reports at 31 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (36), graffiti & vandalism (33), trees & parks (23).

When was Avalon Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 106 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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