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Heaton Street

10 reports at 3 addresses in Strowan, the first in 2022, the latest 2026. 10 separate days somebody filed something about it.

10 reports3 addresses10 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the namethe 3291st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

1 Heaton Street, 7 reports83 Heaton Street, 2 reports25 Heaton Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 34 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Taylor's Drain stream · a reported pin on the line Wairarapa Stream stream · 96 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 15 m away Elmwood Park ramp · 18 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 29 m away Elmwood Park set of steps · 41 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Heaton Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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

Traffic Signals, a report photoTraffic Signals, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoParks, a report photo more photographs
on the Strowan wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Heaton Street?

In Strowan, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Heaton Street?

10 reports at 3 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (7), trees & parks (2), graffiti & vandalism (1).

When was Heaton Street first reported on?

2022, the record covers 10 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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