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Hutcheson Street

55 reports at 20 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 50 separate days somebody filed something about it.

55 reports20 addresses50 days reported onfrom the air, then16 documents carry the namethe 1305th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

25 Hutcheson Street, 8 reports16 Hutcheson Street, 7 reports31 Hutcheson Street, 5 reports46 Hutcheson Street, 4 reports19 Hutcheson Street, 4 reports12 Hutcheson Street, 4 reports29 Hutcheson Street, 3 reports10-16 Hutcheson Street, 3 reports7B Hutcheson Street, 2 reports3 Hutcheson Street, 2 reports26 Hutcheson Street, 2 reports21 Hutcheson Street, 2 reports11 Hutcheson Street, 2 reports6 Hutcheson Street, 1 report42 Hutcheson Street, 1 report30A Hutcheson Street, 1 report23 Hutcheson Street, 1 report20 Hutcheson Street, 1 report15 Hutcheson Street, 1 report14 Hutcheson Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Hutcheson Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hutcheson Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Hutcheson 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. 16 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

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 · 15 m away Sydenham Community Centre set of steps · 17 m away Sydenham Community Centre ramp · 17 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Hutcheson Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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 photoRubbish and Bins - General, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Hutcheson Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Hutcheson Street?

55 reports at 20 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (13), graffiti & vandalism (13), roads & footpaths (10).

When was Hutcheson Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 50 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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