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Suva Street

535 reports at 101 addresses in Upper Riccarton, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 375 separate days somebody filed something about it.

535 reports101 addresses375 days reported on1 on the registerfrom the air, then5 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 94th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

95A Suva Street, 29 reports105 Suva Street, 24 reports69 Suva Street, 20 reports51 Suva Street, 18 reports107 Suva Street, 17 reports117 Suva Street, 15 reports26 Suva Street, 13 reports103 Suva Street, 13 reports91 Suva Street, 12 reports49 Suva Street, 11 reports100 Suva Street, 11 reports99 Suva Street, 10 reports74 Suva Street, 10 reports24 Suva Street, 10 reports118E Suva Street, 10 reports50 Suva Street, 9 reports40 Suva Street, 9 reports39 Suva Street, 9 reports29A Suva Street, 9 reports17 Suva Street, 9 reports111 Suva Street, 9 reports48 Suva Street, 8 reports16A Suva Street, 8 reports109A Suva Street, 8 reports107A Suva Street, 8 reports102 Suva Street, 8 reports97 Suva Street, 7 reports90 Suva Street, 7 reports43A Suva Street, 7 reports36 Suva Street, 7 reports18 Suva Street, 7 reports94 Suva Street, 6 reports87 Suva Street, 6 reports86A Suva Street, 6 reports113 Suva Street, 6 reports88 Suva Street, 5 reports84 Suva Street, 5 reports73 Suva Street, 5 reports70 Suva Street, 5 reports68 Suva Street, 5 reports52 Suva Street, 5 reports37 Suva Street, 5 reports31A Suva Street, 5 reports2 Suva Street, 5 reports17A Suva Street, 5 reports9A Suva Street, 4 reports96 Suva Street, 4 reports7 Suva Street, 4 reports42E Suva Street, 4 reports42 Suva Street, 4 reports33 Suva Street, 4 reports29 Suva Street, 4 reports23 Suva Street, 4 reports98 Suva Street, 3 reports85 Suva Street, 3 reports44 Suva Street, 3 reports31 Suva Street, 3 reports28 Suva Street, 3 reports26A Suva Street, 3 reports115 Suva Street, 3 reports110 Suva Street, 3 reports95-101 Suva Street, 2 reports95 Suva Street, 2 reports8 Suva Street, 2 reports78 Suva Street, 2 reports61 Suva Street, 2 reports60 Suva Street, 2 reports45 Suva Street, 2 reports34 Suva Street, 2 reports32 Suva Street, 2 reports20 Suva Street, 2 reports19 Suva Street, 2 reports16 Suva Street, 2 reports116 Suva Street, 2 reports93 Suva Street, 1 report92 Suva Street, 1 report89 Suva Street, 1 report83 Suva Street, 1 report76 Suva Street, 1 report6 Suva Street, 1 report58 Suva Street, 1 report51-61 Suva Street, 1 report46 Suva Street, 1 report35 Suva Street, 1 report32A Suva Street, 1 report30-26 Suva Street, 1 report30 Suva Street, 1 report28A Suva Street, 1 report22-26 Suva Street, 1 report22 Suva Street, 1 report15 Suva Street, 1 report12 Suva Street, 1 report114 Suva Street, 1 report112 Suva Street, 1 report11 Suva Street, 1 report109-111 Suva Street, 1 report109 Suva Street, 1 report108 Suva Street, 1 report106 Suva Street, 1 report104 Suva Street, 1 report10 Suva Street, 1 reportFormer Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House: register

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Suva Street, not the street’s surveyed line. Register places with a known pin sit on it too. The strong outline is Upper Riccarton.

From the air, then

Suva Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Suva Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Suva 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 41 the record names

What got reported

Year by year

On the register

On foot, The old road’s houses walks this street.

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 →

The businesses on it, 1

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

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Suva Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Cleaning, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photo more photographs
on the Upper Riccarton wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Suva Street?

In Upper Riccarton, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Suva Street?

535 reports at 101 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (332), roads & footpaths (84), vehicles & parking (62).

When was Suva Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 375 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

What heritage places are on Suva Street?

Former Dwelling and Setting, Stevenholme/ Rannerdale House.

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