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Milton Street

360 reports at 65 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 272 separate days somebody filed something about it.

360 reports65 addresses272 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then151 documents carry the namethe 183rd street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

204 Milton Street, 38 reports219 Milton Street, 36 reports238 Milton Street, 29 reports178 Milton Street, 15 reports197 Milton Street, 14 reports248 Milton Street, 12 reports245 Milton Street, 12 reports175 Milton Street, 11 reports215 Milton Street, 10 reports206 Milton Street, 9 reports202 Milton Street, 9 reports264 Milton Street, 8 reports194 Milton Street, 8 reports270 Milton Street, 7 reports210A Milton Street, 7 reports265 Milton Street, 6 reports260 Milton Street, 6 reports257E Milton Street, 6 reports190 Milton Street, 6 reports188 Milton Street, 6 reports198 Milton Street, 5 reports183 Milton Street, 5 reports3543812/204 Milton Street, 4 reports271 Milton Street, 4 reports266 Milton Street, 4 reports234G Milton Street, 4 reports228 Milton Street, 4 reports224A Milton Street, 4 reports202F Milton Street, 4 reports184 Milton Street, 4 reports263 Milton Street, 3 reports259 Milton Street, 3 reports254 Milton Street, 3 reports250 Milton Street, 3 reports240 Milton Street, 3 reports232 Milton Street, 3 reports226 Milton Street, 3 reports210B Milton Street, 3 reports186 Milton Street, 3 reports180A Milton Street, 3 reports268 Milton Street, 2 reports262 Milton Street, 2 reports234 Milton Street, 2 reports200 Milton Street, 2 reports198–202 Milton Street, 2 reports183-189 Milton Street, 2 reports180 Milton Street, 2 reports160 Milton Street, 2 reports275-277 Milton Street, 1 report273 Milton Street, 1 report266A Milton Street, 1 report261 Milton Street, 1 report252-246 Milton Street, 1 report246 Milton Street, 1 report236 Milton Street, 1 report234E Milton Street, 1 report230 Milton Street, 1 report205-215 Milton Street, 1 report195 Milton Street, 1 report184A Milton Street, 1 report182A Milton Street, 1 report181 Milton Street, 1 report173 Milton Street, 1 report160–164 Milton Street, 1 report1/197 Milton Street, 1 reportFormer MED Substation and Setting: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Milton 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

Milton Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Milton Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Milton 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

and the other 5 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The flat that kept its fabric walks this street.

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 151 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 · 3 m away Bradford Park footbridge · 69 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Milton Street in 34 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

Hazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoDamaged Road, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Milton Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Milton Street?

360 reports at 65 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (165), trees & parks (59), rubbish & dumping (53).

When was Milton Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 272 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Milton Street?

Former MED Substation and Setting.

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