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Doncaster Street

17 reports at 10 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 17 separate days somebody filed something about it.

17 reports10 addresses17 days reported onfrom the air, then12 documents carry the namethe 2590th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

28 Doncaster Street, 4 reports6 Doncaster Street, 2 reports51 Doncaster Street, 2 reports30 Doncaster Street, 2 reports29 Doncaster Street, 2 reports8 Doncaster Street, 1 report49 Doncaster Street, 1 report3A Doncaster Street, 1 report37 Doncaster Street, 1 report26 Doncaster Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Doncaster Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Doncaster Street?

In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Doncaster Street?

17 reports at 10 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (11), water & drains (2), vehicles & parking (2).

When was Doncaster Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 17 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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