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Craven Street

90 reports at 35 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 76 separate days somebody filed something about it.

90 reports35 addresses76 days reported onfrom the air, then10 documents carry the namethe 920th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

35 Craven Street, 10 reports27 Craven Street, 9 reports26 Craven Street, 8 reports19 Craven Street, 5 reports2 Craven Street, 4 reports17B Craven Street, 4 reports16A Craven Street, 4 reports33 Craven Street, 3 reports3 Craven Street, 3 reports29 Craven Street, 3 reports23E Craven Street, 3 reports12 Craven Street, 3 reports9 Craven Street, 2 reports8 Craven Street, 2 reports6 Craven Street, 2 reports36 Craven Street, 2 reports20 Craven Street, 2 reports16 Craven Street, 2 reports11 Craven Street, 2 reports1 Craven Street, 2 reports8A Craven Street, 1 report5 Craven Street, 1 report38 Craven Street, 1 report33A Craven Street, 1 report2A Craven Street, 1 report28 Craven Street, 1 report25 Craven Street, 1 report24 Craven Street, 1 report23 Craven Street, 1 report22 Craven Street, 1 report17-19 Craven Street, 1 report15 Craven Street, 1 report10 Craven Street, 1 report1/23D Craven Street, 1 report1/23C Craven Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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 6 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Craven Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Street Cleaning, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoStreet Light Outage, a report photoLitter, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photo more photographs
on the Sockburn wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Craven Street?

In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Craven Street?

90 reports at 35 addresses, most often water & drains (33), rubbish & dumping (25), roads & footpaths (13).

When was Craven Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 76 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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