Ilam Road
341 reports at 60 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 260 separate days somebody filed something about it.
341 reports60 addresses260 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 205th 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 Ilam 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
- 39 Ilam Road, 48 reports
- 54 Ilam Road, 17 reports
- 46 Ilam Road, 17 reports
- 11 Ilam Road, 15 reports
- 35 Ilam Road, 14 reports
- 2 Ilam Road, 13 reports
- 45 Ilam Road, 12 reports
- 47 Ilam Road, 11 reports
- 27 Ilam Road, 11 reports
- 38 Ilam Road, 10 reports
- 40 Ilam Road, 9 reports
- 69 Ilam Road, 8 reports
- 18 Ilam Road, 8 reports
- 53 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 51 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 49 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 36 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 34 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 1 Ilam Road, 7 reports
- 23 Ilam Road, 6 reports
- 65 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 58 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 52 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 50 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 44 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 37 Ilam Road, 5 reports
- 60 Ilam Road, 4 reports
- 28 Ilam Road, 4 reports
- 25 Ilam Road, 4 reports
- 6A Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 6 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 59A Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 56 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 5 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 42 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 33 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 29 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 22 Ilam Road, 3 reports
- 67 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 64 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 62 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 4 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 21 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 20 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 14 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 12 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 10 Ilam Road, 2 reports
- 8B Ilam Road, 1 report
- 8A Ilam Road, 1 report
- 8 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 61 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 57A Ilam Road, 1 report
- 57 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 42-34 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 32 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 26 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 25B Ilam Road, 1 report
- 25A Ilam Road, 1 report
- 16 Ilam Road, 1 report
- 11A Ilam Road, 1 report
What got reported
- Rubbish & dumping, 128 reports
- Water & drains, 88 reports
- Roads & footpaths, 74 reports
- Graffiti & vandalism, 19 reports
- Vehicles & parking, 14 reports
- Trees & parks, 13 reports
- Everything else, 4 reports
- Animals & pests, 1 report
Year by year
- 2015, 1 report
- 2016, 2 reports
- 2017, 4 reports
- 2018, 4 reports
- 2019, 3 reports
- 2020, 1 report
- 2021, 8 reports
- 2022, 55 reports
- 2023, 58 reports
- 2024, 81 reports
- 2025, 78 reports
In the written record
Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history. 34 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 28 August 1886)
· Papers Past,
…william st n opawa f to 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowon 4o ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh3 rd seottmton james c ricoarton lower shirley…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 09 September 1886)
· Papers Past,
…d william et n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwoofl ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scotteton james c riccarton lower shirley s…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 05 October 1886)
· Papers Past,
…william et n opawa 5 to 2 acefs addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holm wood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scottston jame�� kc riccarton lower shirley…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 23 December 1886)
· Papers Past,
…iam bt n sftw5 ftwa j t0 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui blikha rtl seottston james r ac riccartoi 1 ower shi…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 (Star, 05 January 1887)
· Papers Past,
…nd william bt n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd liucoln rd off opawa v papanui bligh rd ecottston james o riccarton lower shirley b…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 (Star, 17 January 1887)
· Papers Past,
…nd william st n opawa to 2 acres addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scottston james c biocarton lower shirley t…
- Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 14 March 1887)
· Papers Past,
…nd william st n opawa to 2 acbes addington crescent rd fendalton bryndwr croydon holmwood ilam rd strowan c ferry rd lincoln rd off opawa n papanui bligh rd scott ston jaines r ac biccarton ower shirl…
- Housing
· National Publicity Studios black and white file prints,
Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
- Housing
· National Publicity Studios black and white file prints,
Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
- Housing
· National Publicity Studios black and white file prints,
Home of Mrs Redpath, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
- Housing
· National Publicity Studios black and white file prints,
Home of Mr and Mrs Whiteside, Ilam Road, Christchurch. September 1972, Canterbury National Publicity Studios black and white file prints; A…
- REGISTER
· New Zealand Gazette,
…rr Pharmacy Limited 3 St Heliers Bay Road, St Heliers, AUCKLAND Ewart Douglas Limited 403 Ilam Road, Fendalton, CHRISTCHURCH Fairfield Pharmacy Limited 289 Waiwhetu Road, Waiwhetu, LOWER HUTT Family C…
The rest are a search away, the whole shelf, for the name →
The businesses on it, 1
Premises whose address in the directory is Ilam Road, the commercial record alongside the civic one.
The crash record on it
NZTA’s record names Ilam Road in 33 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The corner the record returns to: Ilam Road & Memorial Avenue, 71 crashes pinned to the pairing.
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.
- JURY LIST. (Lyttelton Times, 04 April 1855) · Lyttelton Times,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 6 (Wellington Independent, 03 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 10 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 14 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 17 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Wellington Independent, 19 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 21 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 24 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 26 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 28 April 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 (Wellington Independent, 01 May 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Wellington Independent, 05 May 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 (Wellington Independent, 10 May 1866) · Wellington Independent,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 8 (Timaru Herald, 24 May 1882) · Timaru Herald,
- Page 1 Advertisements Column 8 (Timaru Herald, 03 June 1882) · Timaru Herald,
- OTAGO A. & P. SOCIETY'S SHOW. (Otago Witness, 02 December 1887) · Otago Witness,
- TABLE TALK (Otago Witness, 23 October 1907) · Otago Witness,
As it was reported
The latest on it
- Dumped Rubbish, 64 Ilam Road,
- Street Cleaning, 51 Ilam Rd,
- General Request, 65 Ilam Rd,
- Dumped Rubbish, 2 Ilam Road,
- Litter, 58 Ilam Rd,
- Damaged Street Sign, 54 Ilam Rd,
- Hazard, vehicle, 25A Ilam Road,
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 4 Ilam Road,
- Damaged Road, 2 Ilam Road,
- Poles and Signage - General, 58 Ilam Rd,
- Street Cleaning, 49 Ilam Road,
- Street Cleaning, 45 Ilam Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 27 Ilam Road,
- Dumped Rubbish, 42 Ilam Road,
- Hazard, vehicle, 23 Ilam Road,
Questions, answered briefly
Where is Ilam Road?
In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.
What gets reported on Ilam Road?
341 reports at 60 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (128), water & drains (88), roads & footpaths (74).
When was Ilam Road first reported on?
2015, the record covers 260 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.
What is the busiest corner on Ilam Road?
Ilam Road and Memorial Avenue, 71 police-reported crashes at the pairing.
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