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Colligan Street

47 reports at 19 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 45 separate days somebody filed something about it.

47 reports19 addresses45 days reported onfrom the air, then1 document carry the namethe 1413th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

16 Colligan Street, 13 reports14 Colligan Street, 6 reports6 Colligan Street, 3 reports4 Colligan Street, 3 reports18B Colligan Street, 3 reports46 Colligan Street, 2 reports28 Colligan Street, 2 reports25 Colligan Street, 2 reports18A Colligan Street, 2 reports18 Colligan Street, 2 reports7 Colligan Street, 1 report5-7 Colligan Street, 1 report48 Colligan Street, 1 report41 Colligan Street, 1 report34 Colligan Street, 1 report30 Colligan Street, 1 report29A Colligan Street, 1 report24 Colligan Street, 1 report17 Colligan Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Colligan Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colligan Street from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colligan Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Colligan 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.

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.

As it was reported

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Colligan Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Colligan Street?

47 reports at 19 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (20), trees & parks (8), graffiti & vandalism (8).

When was Colligan Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 45 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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