Buchan Street

381 reports at 69 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 236 separate days somebody filed something about it.

381 reports 69 addresses236 days reported onfrom the air, then 1 document carry the name 12 businessesthe 245th 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 Buchan Street, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Sydenham.

From the air, then

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

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

Buchan 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

54 Buchan Street, 36 reports
41 Buchan Street, 31 reports
56 Buchan Street, 19 reports
102 Buchan Street, 16 reports
91 Buchan Street, 15 reports
81 Buchan Street, 14 reports
79 Buchan Street, 14 reports
71 Buchan Street, 14 reports
93 Buchan Street, 13 reports
52 Buchan Street, 13 reports
102A Buchan Street, 11 reports
94 Buchan Street, 9 reports
57A Buchan Street, 9 reports
64 Buchan Street, 8 reports
23 Buchan Street, 7 reports
90 Buchan Street, 6 reports
78 Buchan Street, 6 reports
36 Buchan Street, 6 reports
31–41 Buchan Street, 6 reports
116 Buchan Street, 6 reports
57B Buchan Street, 5 reports
37 Buchan Street, 5 reports
29 Buchan Street, 5 reports
20 Buchan Street, 5 reports
116D Buchan Street, 5 reports
83 Buchan Street, 4 reports
81-83 Buchan Street, 4 reports
72 Buchan Street, 4 reports
26 Buchan Street, 4 reports
22 Buchan Street, 4 reports
12 Buchan Street, 4 reports
112 Buchan Street, 4 reports
76 Buchan Street, 3 reports
74 Buchan Street, 3 reports
70 Buchan Street, 3 reports
66 Buchan Street, 3 reports
62 Buchan Street, 3 reports
42 Buchan Street, 3 reports
38 Buchan Street, 3 reports
33 Buchan Street, 3 reports
28 Buchan Street, 3 reports
21 Buchan Street, 3 reports
19 Buchan Street, 3 reports
89 Buchan Street, 2 reports
84 Buchan Street, 2 reports
63 Buchan Street, 2 reports
48 Buchan Street, 2 reports
44 Buchan Street, 2 reports
3 Buchan Street, 2 reports
24 Buchan Street, 2 reports
17 Buchan Street, 2 reports
12E Buchan Street, 2 reports
1 Buchan Street, 2 reports
96 Buchan Street, 1 report
88 Buchan Street, 1 report
86 Buchan Street, 1 report
81 BUCHAN Street, 1 report
76A Buchan Street, 1 report
61 Buchan Street, 1 report
60 Buchan Street, 1 report

and the other 9 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 230 reports
Roads & footpaths, 38 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 35 reports
Water & drains, 32 reports
Trees & parks, 22 reports
Vehicles & parking, 20 reports
Everything else, 4 reports

Year by year

2016, 3 reports
2017, 1 report
2018, 10 reports
2019, 16 reports
2020, 24 reports
2021, 6 reports
2022, 58 reports
2023, 45 reports
2024, 83 reports
2025, 70 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Notice of Intention to Remove Companies From the Register · New Zealand Gazette, 10 Aug 2023
…TED5N1 TRADE SERVICES LIMITED6 STARS SERVICES LIMITED6 WAITANGI LIMITED60 FERRY LIMITED63 BUCHAN STREET LIMITED66 SWANSON LIMITED6A CONSTRUCTION LIMITED6BK LIMITED7 BLEDISLOE AVENUE LIMITED78HJ LIMITE…

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

The businesses on it, 12

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

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 45 m away Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 49 m away Sydenham Community Centre ramp · 54 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buchan Street in 17 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.