Obriens Road
14 reports at 11 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2021, the latest 2026. 14 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Obriens Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sockburn.
From the air, then
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
- 4 Obriens Road, 3 reports
- 8 Obriens Road, 2 reports
- 9 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 6 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 36-32 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 22 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 2 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 18 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 16A Obriens Road, 1 report
- 13 Obriens Road, 1 report
- 1 Obriens Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 5 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 3 reports
- Everything else, 3 reports
- Water & drains, 2 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report
Year by year
- 2021, 3 reports
- 2024, 3 reports
- 2025, 6 reports
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 Obriens Road in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
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.
- CHRISTURCH. (Star, 12 May 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 10 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 14 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 17 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 21 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 24 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 28 August 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 07 September 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 11 September 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 14 September 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 21 September 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 12 October 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 16 October 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 20 October 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 23 October 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- TABLE TALK. (Auckland Star, 01 October 1903) · Auckland Star,
- CYCLE ROAD RACE (Ellesmere Guardian, 20 September 1932) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- CYCLE ROAD RACE (Ellesmere Guardian, 26 September 1933) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 (Ellesmere Guardian, 15 October 1935) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- SUPPLY OF POWER (Ellesmere Guardian, 15 August 1939) · Ellesmere Guardian,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 8 Obriens Road,
- Water Leak, 22 Obriens Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Obriens Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 4 Obriens Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 6 Obriens Road,
- General Request, 4 Obriens Road,
- General Request, 4 Obriens Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 1 Obriens Road,
- Pavement - General, 2 Obriens Road,
- Water Leak, 16A Obriens Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 13 Obriens Road,
- Roading/Streets, 36-32 Obriens Road,
- Street Light Outage, 18 Obriens Road,
- General Request, 8 Obriens Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.
14 reports at 11 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (5), roads & footpaths (3), everything else (3).
2021, the record covers 14 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
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