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Leslie Street

149 reports at 19 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 100 separate days somebody filed something about it.

149 reports19 addresses100 days reported onfrom the air, then34 documents carry the name2 businessesthe 700th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

13 Leslie Street, 35 reports19 Leslie Street, 22 reports17 Leslie Street, 21 reports21 Leslie Street, 17 reports11 Leslie Street, 15 reports9 Leslie Street, 6 reports15A Leslie Street, 6 reports15 Leslie Street, 6 reports7 Leslie Street, 5 reports16 Leslie Street, 3 reports14 Leslie Street, 3 reports20 Leslie Street, 2 reports10C Leslie Street, 2 reports16-20 Leslie Street, 1 report15a Leslie Street, 1 report15-21 Leslie Street, 1 report12 Leslie Street, 1 report10A Leslie Street, 1 report10 Leslie Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Leslie Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Leslie Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Leslie 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. 34 on the shelf; the 1 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Leslie Street, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Leslie Street in 2 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

The crashes it names, each one →

As it was reported

Pavement - General, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoAccessibility, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoLitter, a report photo more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Leslie Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Leslie Street?

149 reports at 19 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (60), roads & footpaths (44), rubbish & dumping (19).

When was Leslie Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 100 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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