St Martins Road

110 reports at 60 addresses in Saint Martins, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 91 separate days somebody filed something about it.

110 reports 60 addresses91 days reported onfrom the air, then 8 documents carry the namethe 769th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

St Martins Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

St Martins Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

St Martins 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

Graffiti & vandalism, 53 reports
Water & drains, 28 reports
Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 7 reports
Trees & parks, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 2 reports
Everything else, 1 report
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2015, 3 reports
2016, 5 reports
2017, 6 reports
2018, 24 reports
2019, 27 reports
2022, 1 report
2023, 1 report
2024, 3 reports
2025, 22 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 6 earliest:

N.Z.E.F. CASUALTIES (Evening Post, 09 December 1941) · Papers Past, 9 Dec 1941
…ruickshank 59 whiteley street new plymouth f cusdin arthur geoffrey pte mrs c cusfliri 42 st martins road christchurch lm davies walter ashton pte mr j davies co airs annis 33 edgar street wftkari dun…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 02 January 1942) · Papers Past, 2 Jan 1942
…clean sec 4 gladfleld rd rnvercargul f mcnaughton alexander james pte mrs m mcnaughton 10 st martins road st martins m manson royce pte mr l manson rmd takaka f marigold william henry pte mrs m p mari…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 29 January 1942) · Papers Past, 29 Jan 1942
…crofskey pihama dairy company opunake brother cusdin arthur geoffrey pte mrs c cusdin 42 st martins rd christchurch dallow alfred joseph cpl mrs e s dallow 81 godley avenue papanui m dawsox leonard p…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 10 February 1942) · Papers Past, 10 Feb 1942
…pliijp sydney pte mrs a christian matariki m cusdin arthur geoffrey pte mrs c cus din 742 st martins road christchurch m esplin laurence james pte mr p j esplin lloyds private hotel cuba street wellin…
ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 21 February 1942) · Papers Past, 21 Feb 1942
…nr mr f julius cluny road plimmerton f mcnaughton alexander james pte mrs m mcnaughton 10 st martins road st martins christchurch m marshall sydney collins cpl mrs i e marshall care p adamson tussock…
N.Z.E.F. ROLL OF HONOUR (Evening Post, 30 July 1942) · Papers Past, 30 Jul 1942
…gmn mr c h byers 9 ingestre street wanganui f caaiekon ronald e g sigmn mr a b cameron 21 st martins road christchurch f campbell thomas c lsgt mr a camp bell spencerstreet milton f cowley ainold d si…

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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 26 m away Acorn Reserve set of steps · 82 m away Acorn Reserve set of steps · 105 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names St Martins Road in 34 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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.