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Lane Street

70 reports at 21 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2015, the latest 2026. 58 separate days somebody filed something about it.

70 reports21 addresses58 days reported onfrom the air, then69 documents carry the namethe 1147th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

2 Lane Street, 12 reports4 Lane Street, 10 reports16 Lane Street, 10 reports4A Lane Street, 6 reports6 Lane Street, 5 reports32 Lane Street, 4 reports10 Lane Street, 4 reports8 Lane Street, 3 reports31 Lane Street, 2 reports22 Lane Street, 2 reports21 Lane Street, 2 reports35 Lane Street, 1 report30 Lane Street, 1 report27 Lane Street, 1 report20 Lane Street, 1 report2/16 Lane Street, 1 report19 Lane Street, 1 report17 Lane Street, 1 report12 Lane Street, 1 report11E Lane Street, 1 report1/16 Lane Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Lane Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lane Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Lane 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. 69 on the shelf; the 2 earliest:

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

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.

Woolston Cut canal · 23 m away Ōpāwaho / Heathcote River stream · 107 m away Staunton Esplanade Reserve set of steps · 68 m away Radley Park footbridge · 129 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Lane Street in 1 crash that hurt somebody since 2006, 0 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

Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGeneral Request, a report photoOvergrown Vegetation, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Lane Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Lane Street?

70 reports at 21 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (34), roads & footpaths (14), trees & parks (7).

When was Lane Street first reported on?

2015, the record covers 58 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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