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Peer Street

178 reports at 64 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2016, the latest 2026. 150 separate days somebody filed something about it.

178 reports64 addresses150 days reported onfrom the air, then6 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 440th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

56 Peer Street, 16 reports83 Peer Street, 14 reports47C/57C Peer Street, 11 reports60 Peer Street, 9 reports85 Peer Street, 6 reports57 Peer Street, 6 reports12 Peer Street, 6 reports76B Peer Street, 5 reports58 Peer Street, 5 reports44 Peer Street, 5 reports89 Peer Street, 4 reports87 Peer Street, 4 reports86B Peer Street, 4 reports41A Peer Street, 4 reports33 Peer Street, 4 reports14 Peer Street, 4 reports76A Peer Street, 3 reports70 Peer Street, 3 reports6 Peer Street, 3 reports55 Peer Street, 3 reports51 Peer Street, 3 reports38 Peer Street, 3 reports36 Peer Street, 3 reports18A Peer Street, 3 reports16 Peer Street, 3 reports70A Peer Street, 2 reports54 Peer Street, 2 reports46 Peer Street, 2 reports32 Peer Street, 2 reports31 Peer Street, 2 reports84A Peer Street, 1 report80 Peer Street, 1 report78A Peer Street, 1 report75 Peer Street, 1 report74 Peer Street, 1 report72A Peer Street, 1 report72 Peer Street, 1 report6A Peer Street, 1 report67-81 Peer Street, 1 report66A Peer Street, 1 report64A Peer Street, 1 report64 Peer Street, 1 report53 Peer Street, 1 report50 Peer Street, 1 report48 Peer Street, 1 report47A Peer Street, 1 report46A Peer Street, 1 report42 Peer Street, 1 report40A Peer Street, 1 report37-39 Peer Street, 1 report34 Peer Street, 1 report3/12 Peer Street, 1 report29A Peer Street, 1 report29 Peer Street, 1 report27C Peer Street, 1 report27B Peer Street, 1 report26B Peer Street, 1 report26 Peer Street, 1 report21-29 Peer Street, 1 report20 Peer Street, 1 report18 Peer Street, 1 report16A Peer Street, 1 report10 Peer Street, 1 report1 Peer Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Peer Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Peer Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Peer 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

and the other 4 the record names

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 →

Schools on it

The Ministry’s directory gives the street as a school’s address, the rating describes the community each draws from, not how well it teaches.

The businesses on it, 1

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

The named ground

Named water within 150 m of a reported pin, measured to the line or the edge; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Avon Stream / Ōrakipaoa stream · 4 m away Avon Stream stream · 61 m away Avon Stream / Haereroa stream · 73 m away Peer Reserve set of steps · 8 m away Peer Reserve set of steps · 29 m away Peer Reserve set of steps · 68 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Peer Street in 25 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 seriously hurt, nobody killed.

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.

As it was reported

Rubbish and Bins - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoRoad Signage, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoPothole, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Peer Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Peer Street?

178 reports at 64 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (84), roads & footpaths (28), trees & parks (22).

When was Peer Street first reported on?

2016, the record covers 150 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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