Buchanans Road

120 reports at 52 addresses in Yaldhurst, the first in 2017, the latest 2026. 101 separate days somebody filed something about it.

120 reports 52 addresses101 days reported onfrom the air, then 10 documents carry the name 2 businessesthe 695th street on the roll, by days it took to know

Where it runs

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

From the air, then

Buchanans Road from the air, 1940-1944 — **1940-1944** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Buchanans Road from the air, 1970-1974 — **1970-1974** · CC BY 3.0 NZ · LINZ

Buchanans Road 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

Roads & footpaths, 35 reports
Trees & parks, 32 reports
Rubbish & dumping, 29 reports
Graffiti & vandalism, 14 reports
Water & drains, 3 reports
Vehicles & parking, 3 reports
Everything else, 3 reports
Animals & pests, 1 report

Year by year

2017, 4 reports
2018, 9 reports
2019, 5 reports
2020, 7 reports
2021, 5 reports
2022, 24 reports
2023, 22 reports
2024, 12 reports
2025, 21 reports

In the written record

Archive documents carrying the street’s name: leads and citations, not verified history.

Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 (Ellesmere Guardian, 13 September 1935) · Papers Past, 13 Sept 1935
…wl day-old pullets sexed by japanese expert order now phone writeor call fazackerley bros buchanans road sockburn shruhshall superior seeds and plants lists on application a h shrubshall co ltd 659 co…
CASUALTY LIST (Evening Post, 05 May 1941) · Papers Past, 5 May 1941
…reported missing now reported by international red cross prisoner of war mr f d jones 99 buchanans road sockburn f flying officer bernard stanley maurice jones raf killed in action mrs j c jones 15 m…
REPORTED SAFE (Evening Post, 21 May 1945) · Papers Past, 21 May 1945
…lenmore omihi waipani kd isorth canterbury m ruimt gillett francis s fl mrs s j gillett 7 buchanans road upper riccartou christchurch m iguthrie george e fl mr he guthrie gl kimbolton road fclldlng fl…
Ian McAuley Olliver etc. · New Zealand Gazette, 23 Mar 2000
…a. Walker, Stephen Malcolm, beneficiary, formerly of Railway Road, Aylesbury, now of 188A Buchanans Road, Christchurch. Lam, Naomi Ruth, beneficiary, of 122 Awapuni Road, Gisborne. Hartley, Stephen Ch…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 10 Feb 2005
…eath Street, Porirua, Wellington, at 10.18 a.m.Parker, Susan Elizabeth, caregiver, of 502 Buchanans Road, Christchurch, at 9.50 a.m.Pitts, Ian, company director, of 7/47 Marriner Street, Christchurch,…
In Bankruptcy · New Zealand Gazette, 7 Dec 2006
…r, of 30 Rutherford Drive, Waikanae, at 10.31 a.m.Paulsen, Scott James, unemployed, of 44 Buchanans Road, Christchurch, at 1.19 p.m.Tharme, Paul Charles, at 10.25 a.m.1 December 2006Robinson, Lynette…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 28 Aug 2008
…, Christopher Mark, 6 Glen Terrace, Te Puke – 22 August 2008.Hurring, Jacinda Daphne, 175 Buchanans Road, Hei Hei, Hornby, Christchurch – 18 August 2008.Jackson, Gillian Kay, 10 Westgate Street, Ngaru…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Bylaw 2010/10 · New Zealand Gazette, 1 Sept 2010
…12, page 2967815 11 1 Christchurch From 50m north-east of Yaldhurst Road to 280m north of Buchanans Road. 60 1/09/2010, No 112, page 2967816 11 1 Christchurch From 280m north-east of Buchanans Road to…
No Asset Procedures · New Zealand Gazette, 4 Oct 2012
…n, Jeremy George Edward, Christchurch - 24 September 2012.Millard, Alesha Catherine, 194B Buchanans Road, Hei Hei, Christchurch - 24 September 2012.Nel, David Phillip, 3/46 Beatrice Street, Avenal, In…
New Zealand Transport Agency (Speed Limits on State Highways) Amendment Bylaw 2017/2 · New Zealand Gazette, 30 Mar 2017
…2967 855A 11 723 Yaldhurst The section of State Highway 73 at Yaldhurst from 150m east of Buchanans Road to 150m west of Buchanans Road. Any time during any period specified in condition 3 of the Vari…

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

The businesses on it, 2

Premises whose address in the directory is Buchanans Road, 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.

F W Delamain Park footbridge · 18 m away F W Delamain Park jetty · 51 m away Little Oaks Reserve footbridge · 64 m away Little Oaks Reserve footbridge · 79 m away Rimu Park shelter · 92 m away

The crash record on it

NZTA’s record names Buchanans Road in 43 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 people killed, 10 seriously hurt.

The corner the record returns to: Buchanans Road & State Highway 1S, 47 crashes pinned to the pairing.

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.