chch.live a street, in depth

Palm Drive

51 reports at 16 addresses in Shirley, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

51 reports16 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1493rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

27 Palm Drive, 21 reports7 Palm Drive, 4 reports24 Palm Drive, 4 reports34 Palm Drive, 3 reports2A Palm Drive, 3 reports9 Palm Drive, 2 reports5 Palm Drive, 2 reports4 Palm Drive, 2 reports25 Palm Drive, 2 reports23 Palm Drive, 2 reports28 Palm Drive, 1 report21 Palm Drive, 1 report18 Palm Drive, 1 report15 Palm Drive, 1 report14 Palm Drive, 1 report10 Palm Drive, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Palm Drive from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Palm Drive from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Palm Drive from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Palm Drive 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.

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

The named ground

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Palm Drive in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Palm Drive?

In Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Palm Drive?

51 reports at 16 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (19), trees & parks (17), water & drains (6).

When was Palm Drive first reported on?

2018, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

Every street the archive knows → · Shirley → · This street as a feed →