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Boon Street

70 reports at 27 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 62 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports27 addresses62 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 1082nd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

22 Boon Street, 11 reports3 Boon Street, 7 reports42 Boon Street, 6 reports36 Boon Street, 5 reports7 Boon Street, 4 reports30 Boon Street, 4 reports8 Boon Street, 3 reports39B Boon Street, 3 reports41 Boon Street, 2 reports40 Boon Street, 2 reports38 Boon Street, 2 reports35 Boon Street, 2 reports33 Boon Street, 2 reports23 Boon Street, 2 reports2 Boon Street, 2 reports1 Boon Street, 2 reports39b Boon Street, 1 report39a Boon Street, 1 report39 Boon Street, 1 report31 Boon Street, 1 report27 Boon Street, 1 report21a Boon Street, 1 report20 Boon Street, 1 report15A Boon Street, 1 report15 Boon Street, 1 report11 Boon Street, 1 report1/22 Boon Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Boon Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Boon Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Boon 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. 14 on the shelf; the 7 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Boon Street in 4 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Boon Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Boon Street?

70 reports at 27 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (21), water & drains (15), trees & parks (12).

When was Boon Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 62 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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