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Battersea Street

109 reports at 24 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 62 separate days somebody filed something about it.

109 reports24 addresses62 days reported onfrom the air, then61 documents carry the name7 businessesthe 1081st street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

45 Battersea Street, 16 reports55 Battersea Street, 15 reports52 Battersea Street, 8 reports36 Battersea Street, 7 reports46 Battersea Street, 6 reports35 Battersea Street, 6 reports1 Battersea Street, 6 reports51 Battersea Street, 5 reports48 Battersea Street, 5 reports6 Battersea Street, 4 reports34 Battersea Street, 4 reports30 Battersea Street, 4 reports2 Battersea Street, 4 reports40 Battersea Street, 3 reports33 Battersea Street, 3 reports25 Battersea Street, 3 reports47–55 Battersea Street, 2 reports12 Battersea Street, 2 reports8-22 Battersea Street, 1 report7 Battersea Street, 1 report5 Battersea Street, 1 report3 Battersea Street, 1 report29 Battersea Street, 1 report1–9 Battersea Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Battersea Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Battersea Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Battersea Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Battersea 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. 61 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 7

Premises whose address in the directory is Battersea Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Battersea Street in 10 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.

As it was reported

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoSign Poles, a report photoSewer General, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Battersea Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Battersea Street?

109 reports at 24 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (76), roads & footpaths (16), rubbish & dumping (7).

When was Battersea Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 62 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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