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Heron Street

44 reports at 15 addresses in Southshore, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 42 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports15 addresses42 days reported onfrom the air, then3 documents carry the namethe 1494th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

19 Heron Street, 9 reports3 Heron Street, 8 reports18 Heron Street, 6 reports2 Heron Street, 5 reports17 Heron Street, 5 reports16 Heron Street, 2 reports7 Heron Street, 1 report6 Heron Street, 1 report5 Heron Street, 1 report4/6 Heron Street, 1 report4 Heron Street, 1 report3-15 Heron Street, 1 report2A Heron Street, 1 report17B Heron Street, 1 report15 Heron Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Heron Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Heron Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Heron Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Heron 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 places within 350 m of a reported pin, the open map’s record.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Heron Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Heron Street?

In Southshore, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Heron Street?

44 reports at 15 addresses, most often trees & parks (17), rubbish & dumping (8), roads & footpaths (6).

When was Heron Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 42 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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