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Shetland Street

49 reports at 17 addresses in Woolston, the first in 2018, the latest 2026. 46 separate days somebody filed something about it.

49 reports17 addresses46 days reported onfrom the air, then14 documents carry the namethe 1385th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

8 Shetland Street, 21 reports3 Shetland Street, 5 reports19 Shetland Street, 4 reports15 Shetland Street, 3 reports30 Shetland Street, 2 reports29 Shetland Street, 2 reports21 Shetland Street, 2 reports9-3 Shetland Street, 1 report9 Shetland Street, 1 report5 Shetland Street, 1 report25 Shetland Street, 1 report17 Shetland Street, 1 report16B Shetland Street, 1 report16 Shetland Street, 1 report12A Shetland Street, 1 report11 Shetland Street, 1 report10 Shetland Street, 1 report

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

From the air, then

Shetland Street from the air, 1940-1944
1940-1944 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shetland Street from the air, 1970-1974
1970-1974 · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ
Shetland 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. 14 on the shelf; the 12 earliest:

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

The named ground

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

Cutler Park set of steps · 36 m away Thistledown Reserve footbridge · 138 m away

As it was reported

General Request, a report photoWater General, a report photoWater Leak, a report photoPavement - General, a report photoAbandoned Vehicle, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoStreet Gutters / Storm Water, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photoDumped Rubbish, a report photo more photographs
on the Woolston wall →

The latest on it

Questions, answered briefly

Where is Shetland Street?

In Woolston, Christchurch, New Zealand.

What gets reported on Shetland Street?

49 reports at 17 addresses, most often rubbish & dumping (34), water & drains (3), roads & footpaths (3).

When was Shetland Street first reported on?

2018, the record covers 46 separate days somebody filed something about it, through 2026.

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