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Young Street

47 reports at 16 addresses in Somerfield, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 46 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports16 addresses46 days reported onfrom the air, then172 documents carry the namethe 1382nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Young Street, 11 reports8A Young Street, 6 reports37A Young Street, 6 reports28 Young Street, 4 reports35A Young Street, 3 reports25 Young Street, 3 reports18 Young Street, 3 reports30 Young Street, 2 reports17A Young Street, 2 reports8 Young Street, 1 report7A Young Street, 1 report3 Young Street, 1 report29 Young Street, 1 report27 Young Street, 1 report19 Young Street, 1 report17 Young Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Young Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Young Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Young Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Young 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. 172 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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 open map’s record.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 15 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Young Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Water General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoPothole, a report photoPothole, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFallen Tree, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Somerfield wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Young Street?

In Somerfield, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Young Street?

47 reports at 16 addresses, most often water & drains (22), roads & footpaths (11), rubbish & dumping (6).

When was Young Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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