Austin Street

155 reports at 35 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 125 separate days somebody filed something about it.

155 reports 35 addresses125 days reported onfrom the air, then 69 documents carry the namethe 552nd 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 Austin Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sydenham.

From the air, then

Austin Street from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Austin Street from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Austin 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

7 Austin Street, 59 reports
7A Austin Street, 16 reports
9 Austin Street, 8 reports
3 Austin Street, 7 reports
13 Austin Street, 6 reports
41A Austin Street, 5 reports
37A Austin Street, 5 reports
41 Austin Street, 4 reports
40 Austin Street, 4 reports
5 Austin Street, 3 reports
4 Austin Street, 3 reports
18 Austin Street, 3 reports
11 Austin Street, 3 reports
6 Austin Street, 2 reports
37 Austin Street, 2 reports
33 Austin Street, 2 reports
31 Austin Street, 2 reports
24 Austin Street, 2 reports
23 Austin Street, 2 reports
15B Austin Street, 2 reports
9B Austin Street, 1 report
41D Austin Street, 1 report
37B Austin Street, 1 report
35 Austin Street, 1 report
32 Austin Street, 1 report
30 Austin Street, 1 report
2A Austin Street, 1 report
28 Austin Street, 1 report
25 Austin Street, 1 report
20 Austin Street, 1 report
19 Austin Street, 1 report
18 AUSTIN STREET, 1 report
17 Austin Street, 1 report
16 Austin Street, 1 report
12 Austin Street, 1 report

What got reported

Rubbish & dumping, 110 reports
Roads & footpaths, 12 reports
Trees & parks, 12 reports
Water & drains, 7 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 5 reports
Everything else, 3 reports

Year by year

2016, 5 reports
2018, 6 reports
2019, 4 reports
2020, 4 reports
2021, 20 reports
2022, 16 reports
2023, 16 reports
2024, 22 reports
2025, 42 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 69 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

CHRISTCHURCH. (Star, 02 November 1883) · Papers Past, 2 Nov 1883
…to delegate his powe-8 to another rb appeared to have been done in answer to mr thomes mr austin stated in evidence that he had been properly instructed by mr munro and haying general inecvueliona to…
Sydenham. Borough Council. (Star, 21 October 1884) · Papers Past, 21 Oct 1884
…r which they had been informed had been made by mr langdown to give land in order to make austin street 40f t wide he proposed to widen the street by filling in the bed of jackson creek as soon as soi…

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.

Jacksons Creek stream · 9 m away Cameron Reserve road bridge · 49 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Austin Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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.