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Wakefield Avenue

178 reports at 66 addresses in Sumner, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 164 separate days somebody filed something about it.

178 reports66 addresses164 days reported onfrom the air, then15 documents carry the name9 businessesthe 390th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

17 Wakefield Avenue, 8 reports70 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports55 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports107 Wakefield Avenue, 7 reports16 Wakefield Avenue, 6 reports96 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports4 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports123 Wakefield Avenue, 5 reports94 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports93 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports91A Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports9 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports83 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports81 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports67 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports42 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports39 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports37 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports14 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports119 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports117E Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports10 Wakefield Avenue, 4 reports58 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports45 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports43 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports25 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports24 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports15 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports14/16 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports13 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports121 Wakefield Avenue, 3 reports97 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports79 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports77 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports65 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports6 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports38 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports29 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports160 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports117 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports1 Wakefield Avenue, 2 reports98 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report87-99 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report85 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report7 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report6A Wakefield Avenue, 1 report66 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report57 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report47 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report36 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report35 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report34A Wakefield Avenue, 1 report34 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report3 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report28 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report25–37 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report23 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report20 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report126 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report125E Wakefield Avenue, 1 report125 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report11A Wakefield Avenue, 1 report11 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report107A Wakefield Avenue, 1 report102 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report1-17 Wakefield Avenue, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Wakefield Avenue from the air, 1925-1929
1925-1929 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · RNZAF
Wakefield Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Wakefield Avenue 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

and the other 6 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 15 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →

The businesses on it, 9

Premises whose address in the directory is Wakefield Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

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 · 151 m away unnamed set of steps · 19 m away unnamed boardwalk · 21 m away unnamed set of steps · 23 m away unnamed set of steps · 25 m away Port Hills 11 Rrz Land shelter · 30 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Wakefield Avenue in 15 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

Damaged Road, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoFacility - General Request, a report photoGraffiti on a bus stop or public toilet, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRoads - General, a report photoLitter, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Sumner wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Wakefield Avenue?

In Sumner, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Wakefield Avenue?

178 reports at 66 addresses, most often water & drains (51), roads & footpaths (40), trees & parks (32).

When was Wakefield Avenue first reported on?

2016, the record covers 164 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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