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Papanui Road

31 reports at 19 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 31 separate days somebody filed something about it.

31 reports19 addresses31 days reported on7 on the registerfrom the air, then1,537 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 1824th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

258 Papanui Road, 4 reports72 Papanui Road, 2 reports48 Papanui Road, 2 reports342 Papanui Road, 2 reports302 Papanui Road, 2 reports206D Papanui Road, 2 reports204F Papanui Road, 2 reports204 Papanui Road, 2 reports176 Papanui Road, 2 reports138 Papanui Road, 2 reports82 Papanui Road, 1 report76 Papanui Road, 1 report366 Papanui Road, 1 report264A Papanui Road, 1 report242 Papanui Road, 1 report236 Papanui Road, 1 report192 Papanui Road, 1 report186 Papanui Road, 1 report121 Papanui Road, 1 reportCommercial Building and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting: registerDwelling and Setting, Amwell: registerDwelling and Setting, Orana: registerDwelling and Setting, Te Wepu: registerFormer Dwelling and Setting: registerFormer Dwelling/ School and Setting, Former Rangi Ruru/Roseneath House: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Papanui Road, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Saint Albans.

From the air, then

Papanui Road from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Papanui Road from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Papanui 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

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The old north road walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 1,537 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Papanui 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 open map’s record.

Saint Albans Creek stream · 32 m away Strowan Stream stream · 68 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Papanui Road in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Bealey Avenue & Papanui Road, 63 crashes pinned to the pairing.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Pavement - Damaged, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoVandalism - General, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoPest / Vermin, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Papanui Road?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Papanui Road?

31 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (15), roads & footpaths (8), water & drains (6).

When was Papanui Road first reported on?

2019, the record covers 31 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What is the busiest corner on Papanui Road?

Bealey Avenue and Papanui Road, 63 police-reported crashes at the pairing.

What heritage places are on Papanui Road?

Commercial Building and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Dwelling and Setting, Amwell, 4 more on the register.

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