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Lyttelton Street

441 reports at 62 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 340 separate days somebody filed something about it.

441 reports62 addresses340 days reported onfrom the air, then178 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 125th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

75 Lyttelton Street, 126 reports81 Lyttelton Street, 56 reports61 Lyttelton Street, 29 reports32 Lyttelton Street, 24 reports2 Lyttelton Street, 17 reports85 Lyttelton Street, 16 reports83 Lyttelton Street, 16 reports20 Lyttelton Street, 11 reports58 Lyttelton Street, 10 reports72 Lyttelton Street, 9 reports97 Lyttelton Street, 7 reports34 Lyttelton Street, 7 reports26 Lyttelton Street, 7 reports64 Lyttelton Street, 6 reports54 Lyttelton Street, 6 reports84 Lyttelton Street, 5 reports60 Lyttelton Street, 5 reports56 Lyttelton Street, 5 reports80 Lyttelton Street, 4 reports40B Lyttelton Street, 4 reports22 Lyttelton Street, 4 reports78 Lyttelton Street, 3 reports42A Lyttelton Street, 3 reports42 Lyttelton Street, 3 reports40A Lyttelton Street, 3 reports87 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports82 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports79 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports74 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports70 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports7 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports50 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports4 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports28 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports25 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports24 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports23 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports21 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports20A Lyttelton Street, 2 reports18 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports16 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports14-2 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports12 Lyttelton Street, 2 reports98 Lyttelton Street, 1 report95 Lyttelton Street, 1 report88 Lyttelton Street, 1 report87-89 Lyttelton Street, 1 report81–85 Lyttelton Street, 1 report8 Lyttelton Street, 1 report76-78 Lyttelton Street, 1 report76 Lyttelton Street, 1 report68 Lyttelton Street, 1 report62 Lyttelton Street, 1 report6 Lyttelton Street, 1 report48-44 Lyttelton Street, 1 report40 Lyttelton Street, 1 report36 Lyttelton Street, 1 report30 Lyttelton Street, 1 report3 Lyttelton Street, 1 report19 Lyttelton Street, 1 report11 Lyttelton Street, 1 report104-92 Lyttelton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 2 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 178 on the shelf; the 9 earliest:

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

The civic shelf on it

Libraries, halls and the rest whose council open-data address is the street.

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Lyttelton Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 114 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lyttelton Street in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 8 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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

Playground Equipment, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoLitter, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoPark - General Request, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photo more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lyttelton Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lyttelton Street?

441 reports at 62 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (151), trees & parks (86), rubbish & dumping (59).

When was Lyttelton Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 340 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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