Watts Road
49 reports at 18 addresses in Sockburn, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 41 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 Watts 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
- 18 Watts Road, 9 reports
- 34 Watts Road, 8 reports
- 23 Watts Road, 6 reports
- 25 Watts Road, 5 reports
- 18E Watts Road, 4 reports
- 25E Watts Road, 3 reports
- 35 Watts Road, 2 reports
- 17 Watts Road, 2 reports
- 6–12 Watts Road, 1 report
- 5 Watts Road, 1 report
- 32 Watts Road, 1 report
- 29 Watts Road, 1 report
- 24 Watts Road, 1 report
- 22-32 Watts Road, 1 report
- 2/31 Watts Road, 1 report
- 2 Watts Road, 1 report
- 1–7 Watts Road, 1 report
- 13 Watts Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 20 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 16 reports
- Water & drains, 8 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 5 reports
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2017, 2 reports
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 1 report
- 2022, 7 reports
- 2023, 12 reports
- 2024, 6 reports
- 2025, 15 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 5 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:
- POWER SUPPLY (Ellesmere Guardian, 10 April 1934)
· Papers Past,
…and harewpod has been completed six 30ft poles and one 35ft pole have been erected along watts road and high tension run down to the bottom of the road 440yds the low tension and services have been c…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Watts Road in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Blenheim Road & Watts Road, 37 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 09 December 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 December 1899) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 (Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, 05 January 1900) · Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser,
- 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, 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,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Ashburton Guardian, 20 April 1918) · Ashburton Guardian,
- Horse Sale. (Ellesmere Guardian, 16 April 1919) · Ellesmere Guardian,
- MID-CANTERBURY (Ellesmere Guardian, 28 September 1943) · Ellesmere Guardian,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1–7 Watts Rd,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 18 Watts Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 35 Watts Road,
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 6–12 Watts Rd,
- Pavement - General, 18 Watts Road,
- Pavement - Damaged, 18E Watts Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 34 Watts Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Watts Rd,
- Street Gutters / Storm Water, 25E Watts Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 25E Watts Road,
- Water General, 17 Watts Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Watts Road,
- Water Leak, 17 Watts Road,
- Water Leak, 18 Watts Road,
- Pavement - Damaged, 18E Watts Road,
Questions, answered briefly
In Sockburn, Christchurch, New Zealand.
49 reports at 18 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (20), graffiti & vandalism (16), water & drains (8).
2016, the record covers 41 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Blenheim Road and Watts Road, 37 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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