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Hardwicke Street

36 reports at 18 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 34 separate days somebody filed something about it.

36 reports18 addresses34 days reported onfrom the air, then8 documents carry the namethe 1729th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

9 Hardwicke Street, 8 reports23 Hardwicke Street, 3 reports1 Hardwicke Street, 3 reports6 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports3 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports29 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports25 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports21 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports2 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports13 Hardwicke Street, 2 reports8–14 Hardwicke Street, 1 report7 Hardwicke Street, 1 report33 Hardwicke Street, 1 report3/9 Hardwicke Street, 1 report27 Hardwicke Street, 1 report17 Hardwicke Street, 1 report16 Hardwicke Street, 1 report10 Hardwicke Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hardwicke Street from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Hardwicke Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hardwicke Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · 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 council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Matuku-takotako / Sumner Beach beach · 49 m away Scarborough Beach Developed set of steps · 18 m away Scarborough Beach Developed set of steps · 23 m away Scarborough Beach Developed set of steps · 35 m away Scarborough Beach Developed set of steps · 45 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hardwicke Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Water Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoFlooding, a report photoFlooding, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoSewer General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater General, a report photo more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hardwicke Street?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hardwicke Street?

36 reports at 18 addresses, most often water & drains (24), trees & parks (5), rubbish & dumping (2).

When was Hardwicke Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 34 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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