Strowan Road
66 reports at 30 addresses in Strowan, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 58 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Strowan Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Strowan.
From the air, then
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
- 51A Strowan Road, 9 reports
- 3 Strowan Road, 7 reports
- 53 Strowan Road, 6 reports
- 28 Strowan Road, 5 reports
- 8 Strowan Road, 4 reports
- 30 Strowan Road, 3 reports
- 14 Strowan Road, 3 reports
- 8A Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 52 Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 51 Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 45 Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 19 Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 18 Strowan Road, 2 reports
- 49A Strowan Road, 1 report
- 49 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 41A Strowan Road, 1 report
- 38 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 37 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 34 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 32 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 31 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 30A Strowan Road, 1 report
- 26A Strowan Road, 1 report
- 25 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 24 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 22 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 20A Strowan Road, 1 report
- 20 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 17 Strowan Road, 1 report
- 12A Strowan Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Roads & footpaths, 25 reports
- Water & drains, 16 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 16 reports
- Trees & parks, 5 reports
- Everything else, 4 reports
Year by year
- 2016, 1 report
- 2017, 1 report
- 2018, 1 report
- 2019, 1 report
- 2020, 3 reports
- 2021, 4 reports
- 2022, 4 reports
- 2023, 6 reports
- 2024, 18 reports
- 2025, 12 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 26 on the shelf; the 3 earliest:
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 20 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…an to be seen at office block i contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road nnd 6 chains to plynlimon road j or in sections about j quarter-acre 1 block ll contains 1 acre 9…
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 22 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…seen at office block icontains1 contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road and 6 chains to plynlimon road or in sections about quarter-acre block ll contains 1 acre 9 perch…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 (Star, 25 April 1893)
· Papers Past,
…seen at oflice block icontains1 contains 2 acres 30 perches has a frontage of 5 chains to strowan road and g chains to plynlimon road 5 or in sections about quarter-acre block ll contains 1 acre 9 per…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 2
Premises whose address in the directory is Strowan Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The named ground
Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Strowan Road in 25 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 11 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Normans Road & Strowan Road, 32 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 13 November 1883) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 31 December 1883) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 05 January 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 07 January 1884) · Star,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 09 January 1884) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 5 (Star, 09 July 1884) · Star,
- COMMERCIAL. (Star, 15 March 1890) · Star,
- Page 2 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 18 February 1897) · Star,
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 13 December 1900) · Star,
- THE DISTRICT SCHEME. (Star, 11 August 1905) · Star,
- Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 (Poverty Bay Herald, 08 February 1907) · Poverty Bay Herald,
- THE LATE MR. STEAD. (Evening Post, 11 May 1908) · Evening Post,
- G. G. STEAD'S WILL. (Taranaki Herald, 12 May 1908) · Taranaki Herald,
- LATE C. C. STEAD'S WILL. (Grey River Argus, 12 May 1908) · Grey River Argus,
- THE CITY (Ashburton Guardian, 09 November 1917) · Ashburton Guardian,
- SPORTING. (Hawera & Normanby Star, 20 August 1918) · Hawera & Normanby Star,
- PERSONAL (Ellesmere Guardian, 28 February 1936) · Ellesmere Guardian,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Traffic Signals, 8 Strowan Rd,
- Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, 52 Strowan Road,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 30A Strowan Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 28 Strowan Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 32 Strowan Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 38 Strowan Rd,
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 51A Strowan Road,
- Pothole, 31 Strowan Rd,
- Traffic Signals, 8 Strowan Rd,
- Traffic Signals, 3 Strowan Rd,
- Roads - General, 25 Strowan Road,
- Water Leak, 45 Strowan Rd,
- Pavement - General, 14 Strowan Rd,
- Sewer - Leak / Blockage, 17 Strowan Road,
- Water Leak, 14 Strowan Rd,
Questions, answered briefly
In Strowan, Christchurch, New Zealand.
66 reports at 30 addresses, most often roads & footpaths (25), water & drains (16), graffiti & vandalism (16).
2016, the record covers 58 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Normans Road and Strowan Road, 32 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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