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Portman Street

76 reports at 16 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 72 separate days somebody filed something about it.

76 reports16 addresses72 days reported onfrom the air, then2 documents carry the name3 businessesthe 955th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

40 Portman Street, 12 reports29 Portman Street, 11 reports8 Portman Street, 10 reports32 Portman Street, 7 reports30 Portman Street, 7 reports8A Portman Street, 5 reports25 Portman Street, 5 reports14 Portman Street, 5 reports16 Portman Street, 4 reports5 Portman Street, 3 reports3 Portman Street, 2 reports36 Portman Street, 1 report27 Portman Street, 1 report26 Portman Street, 1 report24 Portman Street, 1 report20 Portman Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

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

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

The businesses on it, 3

Premises whose address in the directory is Portman Street, 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.

Thistledown Reserve footbridge · 13 m away Thistledown Reserve footbridge · 40 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Portman Street in 7 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 3 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 photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoPavement - Damaged, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoHazard, vehicle, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoGraffiti on a fence, building or structure, a report photoWater Leak, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Portman Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Portman Street?

76 reports at 16 addresses, most often water & drains (33), rubbish & dumping (17), trees & parks (11).

When was Portman Street first reported on?

2017, the record covers 72 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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