Curletts Road
8 reports at 3 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2020, the latest 2026. 8 separate days somebody filed something about it.
Where it runs
Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Curletts Road, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.
From the air, then
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
- 33 Curletts Road, 4 reports
- 23 Curletts Road, 3 reports
- 39 Curletts Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 8 reports
Year by year
- 2020, 1 report
- 2023, 2 reports
- 2024, 1 report
- 2025, 3 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.
- Montrose Dairy Farm, Curletts Road
· Canterbury Stories,
"Montrose Dairy Farm, Curletts Road. The windmill pumped their water for the whole farm. The house was fitted with all electrical ap…
- Montrose Dairy Farm, Curletts Road
· Canterbury Stories,
"Montrose Dairy Farm, Curletts Road. The windmill pumped their water for the whole farm. The house was fitted with all electrical ap…
- FATAL FIRE (Evening Post, 23 October 1940)
· Papers Past,
…tchurch october 22 a woman aged 70 mrs louie rowe was burned to death when her home at 41 curletts road upper riccarton was completely destroyed by fire about 4 pm her husband mr owen john rowe aged 8…
- Car accident in Upper Riccarton
· Canterbury Stories,
Damaged car after an accident at the corner of Blenheim Road and Curletts Road, outside Canterbury Dairy Farmers. 1981 Christchurch Star negative strips…
- In Bankruptcy
· New Zealand Gazette,
…way, R.D. 6, Mandeville, Gore, at 10.36 a.m.Nicholls, Reta Edith Retimana, florist, of 17 Curletts Road, Christchurch, at 10.13 a.m.Quartly, Paul Andrew, palletmaker, of 31 Korora Street, Bromley, Chr…
- New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10
· New Zealand Gazette,
…09/2010, No 112, page 2967852 11 73 Christchurch From 950m south of Blenheim Road then on Curletts Road, Peer Street and Yaldhurst Road to 50m north-west of Peer Street. 50 1/09/2010, No 112, page 296…
- Basic services information for quake residents
· Radio New Zealand,
…silt. People are asked to bring a shovel or a wheelbarrow to the A & P Showgrounds in Curletts Road. Volunteers are needed between 7am and 4pm. People needing emergency accommodation should contac…
- New Zealand Transport Agency (Traffic Controls on State Highways) Amendment Bylaw 2025/009
· New Zealand Gazette,
…ustine Drive To: NZTM 1566997, 5177404; approximately 136m south of its intersection with Curletts Road Route Position (Midpoint): 075-00/2.112 Direction of travel: Northbound. Restriction Type: Bus L…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Curletts Road in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Blenheim Road & Curletts Road, 76 crashes pinned to the pairing, 2 killed.
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.
- Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 (Lyttelton Times, 14 August 1852) · Lyttelton Times,
- ELECTORAL ROLL FOR THE DISTRICT OF CHRISTCHURCH, July 5th, 1853. (Lyttelton Times, 16 July 1853) · Lyttelton Times,
- JURY LIST FOR 1860. (Lyttelton Times, 19 May 1860) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 6 Advertisements Column 6 (Star, 17 August 1907) · Star,
- NEW ZEALAND ARMY (Evening Post, 28 November 1918) · Evening Post,
- Page 13 Advertisements Column 4 (Evening Post, 24 December 1935) · Evening Post,
- SAFE IN BRITAIN (Evening Post, 14 May 1945) · Evening Post,
As it was reported
The latest on it
Questions, answered briefly
In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
8 reports at 3 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (8).
2020, the record covers 8 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
Blenheim Road and Curletts Road, 76 police-reported crashes at the pairing, 2 of them fatal.
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