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Milton Street

318 reports at 103 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 262 separate days somebody filed something about it.

318 reports103 addresses262 days reported onfrom the air, then158 documents carry the name6 businessesthe 201st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

81 Milton Street, 25 reports83F Milton Street, 23 reports110 Milton Street, 18 reports83 Milton Street, 17 reports117 Milton Street, 14 reports3E Milton Street, 9 reports60 Milton Street, 7 reports127 Milton Street, 7 reports7 Milton Street, 6 reports48 Milton Street, 6 reports3 Milton Street, 6 reports85 Milton Street, 5 reports83A Milton Street, 5 reports59 Milton Street, 5 reports38 Milton Street, 5 reports32 Milton Street, 5 reports150 Milton Street, 5 reports15 Milton Street, 5 reports130 Milton Street, 5 reports111 Milton Street, 5 reports100 Milton Street, 5 reports25 Milton Street, 4 reports128 Milton Street, 4 reports112 Milton Street, 4 reports80 Milton Street, 3 reports79 Milton Street, 3 reports3A Milton Street, 3 reports20 Milton Street, 3 reports160 Milton Street, 3 reports123 Milton Street, 3 reports121 Milton Street, 3 reports104 Milton Street, 3 reports99 Milton Street, 2 reports98 Milton Street, 2 reports97 Milton Street, 2 reports93A Milton Street, 2 reports89 Milton Street, 2 reports82 Milton Street, 2 reports75 Milton Street, 2 reports74 Milton Street, 2 reports72A Milton Street, 2 reports66A Milton Street, 2 reports6 Milton Street, 2 reports36 Milton Street, 2 reports30 Milton Street, 2 reports2 Milton Street, 2 reports16 Milton Street, 2 reports158 Milton Street, 2 reports157 Milton Street, 2 reports145B Milton Street, 2 reports145 Milton Street, 2 reports134 Milton Street, 2 reports118 Milton Street, 2 reports115 Milton Street, 2 reports101 Milton Street, 2 reports98B Milton Street, 1 report96 Milton Street, 1 report95 Milton Street, 1 report93 Milton Street, 1 report90A Milton Street, 1 report9 Milton Street, 1 report87 Milton Street, 1 report84 Milton Street, 1 report78B Milton Street, 1 report78 Milton Street, 1 report77 Milton Street, 1 report76 Milton Street, 1 report72B Milton Street, 1 report69 Milton Street, 1 report68 Milton Street, 1 report65 Milton Street, 1 report62B Milton Street, 1 report59-61 Milton Street, 1 report51 Milton Street, 1 report5 Milton Street, 1 report40 Milton Street, 1 report3a Milton Street, 1 report35 Milton Street, 1 report30A Milton Street, 1 report26 Milton Street, 1 report21 Milton Street, 1 report2/70 Milton Street, 1 report169 Milton Street, 1 report164 Milton Street, 1 report161 Milton Street, 1 report159 Milton Street, 1 report155 Milton Street, 1 report154 Milton Street, 1 report148 Milton Street, 1 report144 Milton Street, 1 report137 Milton Street, 1 report132 Milton Street, 1 report126C Milton Street, 1 report126-128 Milton Street, 1 report126 Milton Street, 1 report124 Milton Street, 1 report11B Milton Street, 1 report113 Milton Street, 1 report11 Milton Street, 1 report107 Milton Street, 1 report105 Milton Street, 1 report103-107 Milton Street, 1 report1/80 MILTON STREET, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

and the other 43 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. 158 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 6

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Sydenham Cemetery ramp · 135 m away Sydenham Cemetery shelter · 135 m away Sydenham Cemetery ramp · 136 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Milton Street in 56 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 10 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoLitter, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photo more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Milton Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Milton Street?

318 reports at 103 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (120), graffiti & vandalism (91), roads & footpaths (42).

When was Milton Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 262 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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