Blenheim Road

219 reports at 87 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 162 separate days somebody filed something about it.

219 reports 87 addresses162 days reported onfrom the air, then then / now 19 businessesthe 400th 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 Blenheim Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.

From the air, then

Blenheim Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blenheim Road from the air, 1960-1964 — **1960-1964** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blenheim Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Blenheim Road 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 →

Then and now

**Then**, 1962 · Blenheim Road, Sockburn, Christchurch City

Now: Google Street View, 2025-03

The photograph names Blenheim Road in its title and its copy is hosted under the source record’s stated rights, it opens that record. The frame is the street as it stands, the pose the QC bank verified (outside Classique Lodge Motel). The whole collection, oldest first →

The addresses on it

and the other 27 the record names

What got reported

Graffiti & vandalism, 85 reports
Roads & footpaths, 61 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 28 reports
Water & drains, 26 reports
Trees & parks, 11 reports
Vehicles & parking, 6 reports
Everything else, 2 reports

Year by year

2016, 10 reports
2017, 4 reports
2018, 2 reports
2019, 8 reports
2020, 2 reports
2021, 3 reports
2022, 17 reports
2023, 36 reports
2024, 32 reports
2025, 66 reports

The businesses on it, 19

Premises whose address in the directory is Blenheim Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

…and 7 more whose address names it.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Blenheim Road in 96 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 20 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The corner the record returns to: Blenheim Road & Main South Road, 157 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.