Rocking Horse Road

420 reports at 180 addresses in Southshore, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 339 separate days somebody filed something about it.

420 reports 180 addresses339 days reported onfrom the air, then 1 document carry the namethe 126th 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 Rocking Horse Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Southshore.

From the air, then

Rocking Horse Road from the air, 1925-1929 — **1925-1929** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF

Rocking Horse Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Rocking Horse Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Rocking Horse Road 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 120 the record names

What got reported

Trees & parks, 112 reports
Roads & footpaths, 104 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 69 reports
Water & drains, 52 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 39 reports
Vehicles & parking, 18 reports
Animals & pests, 13 reports
Everything else, 12 reports

Year by year

2015, 10 reports
2016, 15 reports
2017, 12 reports
2018, 10 reports
2019, 9 reports
2020, 23 reports
2021, 32 reports
2022, 94 reports
2023, 75 reports
2024, 54 reports
2025, 50 reports

In the written record

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

Bankruptcies · New Zealand Gazette, 13 Sept 2012
…ray Donald, 92C Goldfinch Street, Ohakune - 5 September 2012.Methven, Hamish Robert, 165F Rocking Horse Road, Southshore, Christchurch - 3 September 2012.Munro, John Steell, 66 Tradewinds Drive, Banks…