Millar Street

44 reports at 15 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 35 separate days somebody filed something about it.

44 reports 15 addresses35 days reported on1 on the register from the air, then 8 documents carry the namethe 1694th 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 Millar Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Sydenham.

From the air, then

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

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

Millar 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

15 Millar Street, 8 reports
2 Millar Street, 5 reports
16 Millar Street, 5 reports
14B Millar Street, 4 reports
14 Millar Street, 4 reports
3 Millar Street, 3 reports
19E Millar Street, 3 reports
19 Millar Street, 3 reports
11 Millar Street, 3 reports
8 Millar Street, 1 report
6 Millar Street, 1 report
4 Millar Street, 1 report
17-19 Millar Street, 1 report
14A Millar Street, 1 report
10 Millar Street, 1 report

What got reported

Water & drains, 18 reports
Roads & footpaths, 15 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 6 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Everything else, 1 report
Graffiti & vandalism, 1 report

Year by year

2018, 3 reports
2019, 1 report
2021, 5 reports
2022, 7 reports
2023, 5 reports
2024, 11 reports
2025, 11 reports

On the register

MED Substation and Setting, 19E Millar Street

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 8 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

THE HON J. A. MILLAR. (Star, 31 May 1907) · Papers Past, 31 May 1907
…ing to the workmen homes which had been such a bone of con tention in certain quarters mr millar stated that all the houses built at petone with on exception had now been let tenders had been called f…
TO-DAY'S SPEECHES. (Star, 06 November 1908) · Papers Past, 6 Nov 1908
…choolroom mr j ivess broken river dr thacker peeks store redcliffs mr j thorn southey and millar streets sydenham mr d g sullivan burwood school mr g russell pumping station corner tuam street linwood…

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

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.