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Perth Street

157 reports at 51 addresses in Richmond, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 141 separate days somebody filed something about it.

157 reports51 addresses141 days reported onfrom the air, then63 documents carry the namethe 483rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Perth Street, 11 reports53 Perth Street, 10 reports5 Perth Street, 9 reports48 Perth Street, 9 reports45 Perth Street, 8 reports61 Perth Street, 7 reports75 Perth Street, 6 reports57 Perth Street, 6 reports52 Perth Street, 6 reports50 Perth Street, 6 reports43 Perth Street, 6 reports58 Perth Street, 5 reports28A Perth Street, 5 reports68 Perth Street, 4 reports71 Perth Street, 3 reports70 Perth Street, 3 reports65 Perth Street, 3 reports60 Perth Street, 3 reports27 Perth Street, 3 reports1/45 Perth Street, 3 reports9 Perth Street, 2 reports63 Perth Street, 2 reports61C Perth Street, 2 reports61B Perth Street, 2 reports56 Perth Street, 2 reports52–54 Perth Street, 2 reports3 Perth Street, 2 reports24 Perth Street, 2 reports21 Perth Street, 2 reports10 Perth Street, 2 reports71B Perth Street, 1 report69 Perth Street, 1 report66 Perth Street, 1 report59 Perth Street, 1 report55 Perth Street, 1 report54 Perth Street, 1 report47 Perth Street, 1 report40 Perth Street, 1 report3–35 Perth Street, 1 report35 Perth Street, 1 report32 Perth Street, 1 report31 Perth Street, 1 report30 Perth Street, 1 report3-7 Perth Street, 1 report28B Perth Street, 1 report28 Perth Street, 1 report15 Perth Street, 1 report14 Perth Street, 1 report13 Perth Street, 1 report11 Perth Street, 1 report1 Perth Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Perth Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Perth Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Perth Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Perth 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. 63 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Perth Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Richmond wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Perth Street?

In Richmond, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Perth Street?

157 reports at 51 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (50), roads & footpaths (42), water & drains (18).

When was Perth Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 141 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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