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Brisbane Street

154 reports at 42 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 87 separate days somebody filed something about it.

154 reports42 addresses87 days reported onfrom the air, then18 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 809th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

100 Brisbane Street, 18 reports23 Brisbane Street, 11 reports96 Brisbane Street, 9 reports66 Brisbane Street, 9 reports54 Brisbane Street, 8 reports53 Brisbane Street, 7 reports104 Brisbane Street, 7 reports69 Brisbane Street, 5 reports41 Brisbane Street, 5 reports11E Brisbane Street, 5 reports105 Brisbane Street, 5 reports1 Brisbane Street, 5 reports40 Brisbane Street, 4 reports33 Brisbane Street, 4 reports12 Brisbane Street, 4 reports11 Brisbane Street, 4 reports73 Brisbane Street, 3 reports65 Brisbane Street, 3 reports58 Brisbane Street, 3 reports35 Brisbane Street, 3 reports16 Brisbane Street, 3 reports86E Brisbane Street, 2 reports83 Brisbane Street, 2 reports78 Brisbane Street, 2 reports67 Brisbane Street, 2 reports38 Brisbane Street, 2 reports26 Brisbane Street, 2 reports21 Brisbane Street, 2 reports18 Brisbane Street, 2 reports79 Brisbane Street, 1 report71–83 Brisbane Street, 1 report65e Brisbane Street, 1 report65a Brisbane Street, 1 report65G Brisbane Street, 1 report65B Brisbane Street, 1 report64 Brisbane Street, 1 report60 Brisbane Street, 1 report45-49 Brisbane Street, 1 report38b Brisbane Street, 1 report38B Brisbane Street, 1 report22 Brisbane Street, 1 report20 Brisbane Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Brisbane Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brisbane Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Brisbane 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. 18 on the shelf; the 5 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Brisbane Street in 18 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

Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Brisbane Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Brisbane Street?

154 reports at 42 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (89), roads & footpaths (39), water & drains (10).

When was Brisbane Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 87 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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