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Westminster Street

187 reports at 64 addresses in Saint Albans, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 151 separate days somebody filed something about it.

187 reports64 addresses151 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 436th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

95 Westminster Street, 13 reports106 Westminster Street, 12 reports20 Westminster Street, 9 reports76 Westminster Street, 8 reports26 Westminster Street, 7 reports94 Westminster Street, 6 reports93 Westminster Street, 6 reports60 Westminster Street, 6 reports50 Westminster Street, 6 reports142 Westminster Street, 5 reports118 Westminster Street, 5 reports86 Westminster Street, 4 reports84 Westminster Street, 4 reports83 Westminster Street, 4 reports58 Westminster Street, 4 reports144 Westminster Street, 4 reports112 Westminster Street, 4 reports101 Westminster Street, 4 reports9 Westminster Street, 3 reports82 Westminster Street, 3 reports53 Westminster Street, 3 reports138 Westminster Street, 3 reports123A Westminster Street, 3 reports98 Westminster Street, 2 reports97/99 Westminster Street, 2 reports97 Westminster Street, 2 reports93C Westminster Street, 2 reports93A Westminster Street, 2 reports89 Westminster Street, 2 reports85 Westminster Street, 2 reports8 Westminster Street, 2 reports46 Westminster Street, 2 reports45 Westminster Street, 2 reports40 Westminster Street, 2 reports36 Westminster Street, 2 reports24 Westminster Street, 2 reports156 Westminster Street, 2 reports155 Westminster Street, 2 reports151 Westminster Street, 2 reports134 Westminster Street, 2 reports130 Westminster Street, 2 reports128 Westminster Street, 2 reports114 Westminster Street, 2 reports99 Westminster Street, 1 report96 Westminster Street, 1 report91 Westminster Street, 1 report88 Westminster Street, 1 report87 Westminster Street, 1 report58-60 Westminster Street, 1 report54-58 Westminster Street, 1 report52 Westminster Street, 1 report48 Westminster Street, 1 report34 Westminster Street, 1 report32 Westminster Street, 1 report28 Westminster Street, 1 report20–32 Westminster Street, 1 report16 Westminster Street, 1 report148 Westminster Street, 1 report139 Westminster Street, 1 report127 Westminster Street, 1 report12 Westminster Street, 1 report116 Westminster Street, 1 report103 Westminster Street, 1 report10 Westminster Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 4 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 10 on the shelf; the 8 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Westminster Street, 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 · a reported pin on the line

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Westminster Street in 23 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Blockage, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoTrees - General, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Saint Albans wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Westminster Street?

In Saint Albans, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Westminster Street?

187 reports at 64 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (62), roads & footpaths (49), water & drains (26).

When was Westminster Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 151 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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