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Moorhouse Avenue

220 reports at 64 addresses in Waltham, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 120 separate days somebody filed something about it.

220 reports64 addresses120 days reported onfrom the air, then257 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 585th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

590A Moorhouse Avenue, 14 reports450 Moorhouse Avenue, 13 reports494 Moorhouse Avenue, 11 reports460 Moorhouse Avenue, 11 reports472 Moorhouse Avenue, 10 reports458 Moorhouse Avenue, 8 reports518 Moorhouse Avenue, 7 reports480 Moorhouse Avenue, 7 reports520 Moorhouse Avenue, 6 reports391 Moorhouse Avenue, 6 reports590 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports580A Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports547 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports527 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports514 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports499 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports493 Moorhouse Avenue, 5 reports574 Moorhouse Avenue, 4 reports564 Moorhouse Avenue, 4 reports541 Moorhouse Avenue, 4 reports538 Moorhouse Avenue, 4 reports482 Moorhouse Avenue, 4 reports550 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports528 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports515A Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports515 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports501 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports492C Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports479 Moorhouse Avenue, 3 reports578 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports570 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports540 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports534 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports532 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports515a Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports510 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports495 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports492B Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports491 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports488 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports478 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports471 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports460B Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports427 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports373 Moorhouse Avenue, 2 reports589 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report588-592 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report585 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report581 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report566 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report545 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report543 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report542 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report526 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report500 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report497 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report492A Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report492 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report482E Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report466 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report462 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report460a Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report458–460 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report456 Moorhouse Avenue, 1 report

Each report dot is the average of the spots reports were filed from, where reporters stood on Moorhouse Avenue, not the street’s surveyed line. The strong outline is Waltham.

From the air, then

Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1960-1964
1960-1964 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Moorhouse Avenue 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. 257 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Moorhouse Avenue, the commercial record alongside the civic one.

The named ground

the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.

Lancaster Park set of steps · 106 m away Lancaster Park ramp · 109 m away Lancaster Park set of steps · 119 m away Lancaster Park set of steps · 122 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Moorhouse Avenue in 54 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 6 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

Water Leak, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDamaged Street Sign, a report photoGraffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, a report photo more photographs
on the Waltham wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Moorhouse Avenue?

In Waltham, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Moorhouse Avenue?

220 reports at 64 addresses, most often graffiti & vandalism (138), water & drains (28), roads & footpaths (27).

When was Moorhouse Avenue first reported on?

2015, the record covers 120 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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