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Broad Street

24 reports at 14 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2019, the latest 2026. 21 separate days somebody filed something about it.

24 reports14 addresses21 days reported onfrom the air, then31 documents carry the name1 businessesthe 2307th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

54 Broad Street, 7 reports60 Broad Street, 2 reports42 Broad Street, 2 reports40 Broad Street, 2 reports1/14 Broad Street, 2 reports64 Broad Street, 1 report58 Broad Street, 1 report56C Broad Street, 1 report44 Broad Street, 1 report38 Broad Street, 1 report20 Broad Street, 1 report17 Broad Street, 1 report14 Broad Street, 1 report13/14 Broad Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Broad Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Broad Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Broad 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. 31 on the shelf; the 9 earliest:

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

The businesses on it, 1

Premises whose address in the directory is Broad 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.

Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 2 m away Staunton Esplanade Reserve footbridge · 8 m away Staunton Esplanade Reserve footbridge · 26 m away

As it was reported

Dumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoWater General, a report photoGraffiti somewhere else, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Broad Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Broad Street?

24 reports at 14 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (9), roads & footpaths (7), trees & parks (4).

When was Broad Street first reported on?

2019, the record covers 21 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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