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Southey Street

80 reports at 33 addresses in Sydenham, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 75 separate days somebody filed something about it.

80 reports33 addresses75 days reported onfrom the air, then22 documents carry the namethe 930th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

26 Southey Street, 10 reports52 Southey Street, 8 reports41 Southey Street, 6 reports30 Southey Street, 5 reports24 Southey Street, 5 reports21 Southey Street, 4 reports17 Southey Street, 4 reports53E Southey Street, 3 reports42 Southey Street, 3 reports32C Southey Street, 3 reports31 Southey Street, 3 reports53 Southey Street, 2 reports51 Southey Street, 2 reports32D Southey Street, 2 reports22 Southey Street, 2 reports9 Southey Street, 1 report7 Southey Street, 1 report61 Southey Street, 1 report48 Southey Street, 1 report46 Southey Street, 1 report45 Southey Street, 1 report44 Southey Street, 1 report39 Southey Street, 1 report33 Southey Street, 1 report32B Southey Street, 1 report32 Southey Street, 1 report28 Southey Street, 1 report27 Southey Street, 1 report25 Southey Street, 1 report23 Southey Street, 1 report18 Southey Street, 1 report15 Southey Street, 1 report10 Southey Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Southey Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Southey Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Southey 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. 22 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Southey Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Water Leak, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoFlooding, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Sydenham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Southey Street?

In Sydenham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Southey Street?

80 reports at 33 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (21), water & drains (17), trees & parks (13).

When was Southey Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 75 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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