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Fairview Street

95 reports at 24 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 84 separate days somebody filed something about it.

95 reports24 addresses84 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the namethe 838th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

39 Fairview Street, 35 reports6 Fairview Street, 16 reports48 Fairview Street, 6 reports23 Fairview Street, 6 reports54 Fairview Street, 5 reports8 Fairview Street, 3 reports50 Fairview Street, 2 reports38 Fairview Street, 2 reports27 Fairview Street, 2 reports16 Fairview Street, 2 reports15 Fairview Street, 2 reports12A Fairview Street, 2 reports44 Fairview Street, 1 report42 Fairview Street, 1 report36A Fairview Street, 1 report35 Fairview Street, 1 report33-39 Fairview Street, 1 report30 Fairview Street, 1 report29 Fairview Street, 1 report27 FAIRVIEW Street, 1 report25 Fairview Street, 1 report21 Fairview Street, 1 report18 Fairview Street, 1 report11 Fairview Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Fairview Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Fairview Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Fairview Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Fairview Street from the air, 1975-1979
1975-1979 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, 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

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; 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 Fairview Street in 4 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 0 seriously hurt.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Fairview Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Fairview Street?

95 reports at 24 addresses, most often trees & parks (37), graffiti & vandalism (18), water & drains (14).

When was Fairview Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 84 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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