Bretts Road
24 reports at 15 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 20 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Bretts Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Saint Albans.
From the air, then
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
- 31 Bretts Road, 4 reports
- 2 Bretts Road, 4 reports
- 52 Bretts Road, 2 reports
- 38–56 Bretts Road, 2 reports
- 27 Bretts Road, 2 reports
- 68 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 56 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 53 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 51 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 49 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 48 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 45 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 36 Bretts Road, 1 report
- 31E Bretts Road, 1 report
- 11 Bretts Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Water & drains, 7 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 5 reports
- Rubbish & dumping, 4 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
- Trees & parks, 3 reports
- Everything else, 1 report
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2022, 3 reports
- 2023, 4 reports
- 2024, 9 reports
- 2025, 5 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 5 on the shelf; the 4 earliest:
- N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 20 July 1942)
· Papers Past,
…amiora hupa lieut mrs t hamiora whaka rotorua w broadway thomas g 2lieut mrs e broadway 7 bretts road christehurch m iabernethy frank pte mrs e abernefchy kaka point m ashion henry x cpl mrs d h ash t…
- ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 June 1944)
· Papers Past,
…mrs i ai lambert fi2 kelmarna avenue herne bay w broadway thomas g lieut mrs e broadway 7 bretts road christchurch m loisel norman e h 2lleut mrs m e loisel tlpapa motunau w waititi john 2lieut mrs i…
- RESCUED NEW ZEALAND TROOPS (Evening Post, 19 May 1945)
· Papers Past,
…tton 12 fairfleld avenue addington m eastwood eric t capt mrs m eastwood care miss wilkle bretts road chrietchurch findlay john s capt mrs r m plndlay 20a royal terrace duncdiu w finlayson robert c 8…
- Justices of the Peace Appointed
· New Zealand Gazette,
…ad, Mangapai Rangihika, Maureen Huia, 55 Peter Lippa Drive, Kawerau Reed, Amanda Rose, 51 Bretts Road, St Albans, Christchurch Rei, Priscilla, 55 Ngatai Street, Manaia Roberts-Bangera, Jesintha Shanth…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Bretts Road in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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
The latest on it
- General Request, 52 Bretts Rd,
- Water Leak, 38–56 Bretts Rd,
- Water Leak, 38–56 Bretts Rd,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 31 Bretts Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 52 Bretts Road,
- Graffiti somewhere else, 31E Bretts Road,
- Trees - General, 48 Bretts Road,
- Damaged Road, 2 Bretts Road,
- Road Blockage, 2 Bretts Road,
- Damaged Road, 2 Bretts Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 51 Bretts Road,
- Rubbish and Bins - General, 36 Bretts Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 56 Bretts Road,
- Fallen Tree, 49 Bretts Road,
- Overgrown Vegetation, 11 Bretts Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.
24 reports at 15 addresses, most often water & drains (7), roads & footpaths (5), rubbish & dumping (4).
2016, the record covers 20 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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