Penrith Avenue

53 reports at 29 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 51 separate days somebody filed something about it.

53 reports 29 addresses51 days reported onfrom the air, then 1 document carry the namethe 1279th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Penrith Avenue from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Penrith Avenue from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Penrith Avenue 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

What got reported

Roads & footpaths, 20 reports
Water & drains, 13 reports
Vehicles & parking, 7 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 5 reports
Trees & parks, 4 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 2 reports
Noise, 2 reports

Year by year

2015, 1 report
2017, 2 reports
2018, 2 reports
2019, 3 reports
2020, 1 report
2021, 2 reports
2022, 2 reports
2023, 12 reports
2024, 5 reports
2025, 7 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 9 Mar 2006
…r, of 1/36 Geddes Road, Rotorua, at 9.00 a.m.Philpott, Darrell William, unemployed, of 47 Penrith Avenue, Somerfield, Christchurch, at 9.00 a.m.Sievers, Anthony Michael, furniture maker, and Sievers,…