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Burlington Street

154 reports at 38 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 120 separate days somebody filed something about it.

154 reports38 addresses120 days reported onfrom the air, then29 documents carry the namethe 583rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

4R Burlington Street, 15 reports2 Burlington Street, 12 reports30 Burlington Street, 11 reports17 Burlington Street, 9 reports35 Burlington Street, 8 reports47A Burlington Street, 7 reports4 Burlington Street, 6 reports9B Burlington Street, 5 reports38 Burlington Street, 5 reports24 Burlington Street, 5 reports20 Burlington Street, 5 reports16 Burlington Street, 5 reports8 Burlington Street, 4 reports7 Burlington Street, 4 reports44 Burlington Street, 4 reports2R Burlington Street, 4 reports18 Burlington Street, 4 reports47B Burlington Street, 3 reports42 Burlington Street, 3 reports36 Burlington Street, 3 reports3 Burlington Street, 3 reports11 Burlington Street, 3 reports9A Burlington Street, 2 reports48 Burlington Street, 2 reports47 Burlington Street, 2 reports45 Burlington Street, 2 reports34 Burlington Street, 2 reports28 Burlington Street, 2 reports22 Burlington Street, 2 reports19 Burlington Street, 2 reports10 Burlington Street, 2 reports1 Burlington Street, 2 reports46 Burlington Street, 1 report45-47 Burlington Street, 1 report39 Burlington Street, 1 report32 Burlington Street, 1 report2S Burlington Street, 1 report15 Burlington Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Burlington Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burlington Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Burlington 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. 29 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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 · a reported pin on the line Jacksons Creek footbridge · 5 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 12 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 21 m away Jacksons Creek set of steps · 48 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Burlington Street in 43 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 7 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 photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a sign, mural or public art, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Burlington Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Burlington Street?

154 reports at 38 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (39), rubbish & dumping (36), water & drains (22).

When was Burlington Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 120 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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