- There was a murder of a three year old girl a block away.
There was a helicopter going up and down the beach in
this area one night
- Unsolicited door knockers
- Unsolicited religious visits
- High school pupils and others wandering through Aldwins
Courts
- Burglaries in the daytime
- Neglected and filthy house nearly opposite (with family)
- Undesirable people moving into state house opposite. Used
for drug activities (one lot of residents) and as a
brothel (another lot of residents)
- Prowler in the early hours of the morning
- Theft of hanging plants and terracotta plant containers
- Vandalism to cars
- Person attempting to steal my car
- Neighbours' parties and loud music
- People dumping rubbish outside our letterbox area. 6 -10
bags left after ours was collected
- Hoons speeding down street
- Noisy birds (cockatoo)
- Windows broken by balls from children playing
- Hoons on road too fast along Linwood Ave and then into
this street
- Hoons (speeding)
- Rooster crowing
- Jet planes overhead
- Plastic rubbish unit on walk way. Bower Bridge walkway is
regularly set alight - should be replaced by metal
container. It occurs after the hotel closes on Thursday
evenings
- The house shakes with constant heavy duty traffic passing
and road is damaged
- Traffic travels along Hampshire St at dangerous speeds -
we have asked for judder bars and taken up a petition but
no response thus far
- Speeding traffic on Brocher Street, between Hampshire and
Eureka - real danger to children
- Religious people coming to door
- A table was stolen from outside
- Neighbour peering into bedroom window. Police said they
couldn't do anything if they didn't catch him at it. The
peeping tom is 15 years old and his parents don't speak
English. We know he has done it a lot of times here and
at other neighbours.
- On damp days there is sparking from power insulators - it
makes a constant buzzing noise from a pylon nearby
- Some of the neighbours (the kids come in without
knocking) interfere with my mail and annoy my dogs
- Wood burners - the smoke lingers around all day and night
at times in the winter
- Collectors and salesmen wanting money off me
- Phone canvassers
- Alarms going off in school
- Son bitten by a dog while delivering papers in the
neighbourhood
- Drug problem in the alleyways
- Teenage vandals smashing lights
- Someone jumping over my fence and into our garden several
times in one night
- Graffiti on fences
- Wild bees in hive
- Leaves are a problem
- Kittens living under house
- Creeper from next door invading back fence and garage
- Garage broken into
- Cats digging up garden and defecating (smells horrible)
- Local drunks heading home Friday nights - mainly young
ones
- People wandering through property at night
- The neighbours (communication difficulties)
- Traffic speeding and hooning
- Prowlers, mostly in evenings
- Overcrowding in neighbouring flat (10 people)
- Gangs - hard for families because of security and
violence
- Drug dealing next door
- A drunk throwing up by my back door
- Student vandalism - letter boxes and fences knocked down
- Youths congregating at the end of the street at night
- Bar on corner of Worcester St and Stanmore Rd attracting
people with unsociable behaviour - lots of fights etc
- Hassled by neighbour standing behind hedge and following
women at night
- Burglary
- Fliers from letter boxes in flats
- Neighbour objecting to household trimming dividing hedge
- Student hooligans
- Car wash very noisy
- Youths come along the road fast and the tyres squealing -
we wake up from our sleep
- Prowlers at night on our property
- Burglaries late at night
- Break-ins and burglaries
- Tampering with vehicles when parked on street
- Too many cats
- Mongrel cats, wandering, not looked after.
- Container trucks
- Cars parking from mall use making access hard
- Smell from Moots Meat Market
- Pinching my mail
- Cat eats my meat when I have it out to be thawed. He
comes in my kitchen. I don't know whose cat it is.
- Car vandalism - car parked on Bickerton Street.
- Church at back of property creates noise at weekends - we
were never consulted about the change in the use of the
building.
- Noise from large compressor in factory sited on back
fence. Compressor installed after house purchased.
- People trying door handles
- Neighbours' tree leaves and roots
- People knocking at her door at 1.30 at night, rubbish
from adjoining lane
- Dogs leaving droppings on lawn
- Neighbourhood children over back fence - vandalism
- Cars speeding
- Southpower Electricity transmitter - invisible pollutant
- Cashmere High School alarm goes off, no one even reacts
because it happens so frequently
- Leaves from neighbours' trees
- Noise from a party
- Dog faeces
- Mail box vandals
- Convicted child molester hangs around park over road from
us
- Dog which bit a child. I phoned Dog Control and they just
told me to tie it up. They didn't even ask me who I was
or let me know what happened. They didn't seem to care. I
thought they were the ones who were supposed to tie up
dangerous dogs not me
- Attempted burglary
- You can't put your rubbish out at night without it being
totally destroyed by a dog
- Blocked sewage pipe
- Burglary
- Traffic racing because they don't know it's a cul-de-sac
- Noise from planes
- The volume of traffic on Lowrey Ave
- Speed of traffic on the road - Lowrey Ave
- Stolen milk money
- Other vehicles often parked outside our frontage -
sometimes a large truck where neighbours have
insufficient parking space
- Large dog with vicious bark on a neighbour's property
- Smell from abattoir
- Smell from freezing works
- Rock concert
- Burglary
- Dog faeces
- Car thieves
- Loud stereos in cars
- Rock concert noise
- Burglary in the residents' garage
- Students parking illegally in Ilam - Creyke Rd (this is
the place the respondent has moved from within the last
year)
- Cats coming and digging in the garden
- Noise from planes
- Smell from Belfast meat works
- Strong, bad smell - probably from freezing works
- People trying to take street signs off lamp post at
2.00am
- Letter box pushed over, also my neighbour's also always
destroyed
- Papanui working men's club, Sawyers Arms Rd - very noisy
late night traffic
- Concerned about dogs loose in parks, especially Elephant
Park Bishopdale playground where I saw child savaged when
using flying fox
- Next-door neighbour recently burgled
- A nasty rape in neighbourhood
- Three burglaries in last three years
- Petty theft - cars broken into
- Crime/breaking into cars on street
- Cats in my garden
- People loitering without reason
- Waimakariri Rd between Sawyers Arms Rd and Harewood Rd -
speeding cars do shortcut 7-9am to get onto Johns Rd
- Neighbours had trouble with theft from property
- Dogs running amok around our sheep or poultry
- Burning of cars/vandalism of cars in dead end streets
- Cats digging up garden
- Graffiti
- Jehovah witnesses banging on the door
- Kimberley Race track - speed bumps needed to slow all
traffic down
- Speed problem - young people
- The air pollution and noise pollution
- Noise from bulldozer
- Someone made a dint in my mate's car when it was parked
out front - his wife had a bit of an accident here in
December or January.
- Noise - sometimes a band playing in Leaver Terrace in a
garage
- Pegasus Ave - people speeding down the road and cutting
through to another street
- Trees overhanging from neighbouring property
- People doing wheelies in Bishopdale car-park
- Rubbish from supermarket, can re-cycling
- Neighbour who complained about their dog
- Clogging up of channel drain in Taylors Ave - odd numbers
only
- Trees stolen from grass berm
- People dropping bottles around the streets
- Charging dogs
- Noise from outdoor concerts in Mona Vale/Hagley park
- Burglaries
- Tourist buses backing into Mona Vale
- Noisy party, Hangi (fire risk to garage), Fire brigade
and Noise Control
- Road being built on Scarborough and the machine that
breaks rock
- Skin-heads and townies hooning along Esplanade in their
cars
- Triathlons in Sumner park over drive
- Theft of hose and sprinkler in front garden
- Lots of burglar alarms around - seem to be faulty and go
off a lot - rang noise control last time
- Hawkers at the door
- Trucks servicing building project damaging private road
- Seventh-day Adventists
- Young skate-boarders using the hill in Crichton Terrace -
I am concerned about their safety
- Traffic flow around Cannon Hill Crescent which is full of
dangerous blind spots and cars travel too fast on narrow
roads, especially near the school
- Tree maintenance at the top of King Park. The trees are
blocking our view
- Smells from the estuary
- Fear of burglaries and damage to cars (broken windows
etc)
- Dreadful smell from the lagoon. It is better than it used
to be but it can be bad
- A month ago we twice saw a rat running around our
property. We put rat poison down
- A possum in the back-yard at night
- House being built
- Cutting of trees at top of Old School Reserve
- Young people in cars smoking dope on the new Cannon Hill
Crescent connection road at night
- People not being sympathetic to their trees creating a
view encroachment
- Loud car stereos, speeding, revving on Sumner Esplanade
on weekends
- Drainage (public sewer at first Clifton Hill bend) is
smelly
- Rats
- Car alarm that is activated at night
- Street people (Central Christchurch last address)
- Commercial van parked for long periods - hard to work
around it
- Grumpy neighbour - children playing with balls etc
- Teenagers, 1am to 2am racing and doing donuts
- Break ins - breaking into all the vehicles in the street
- A man nearby owns an open section to grow vegetables. The
manure smell is dreadful
- Skate boarders and cyclists using footpath
- Unsupervised kids throwing stones and breaking fences and
interfering with mail boxes
- Neighbours trees shading and making mess
- Cars travelling too fast in Tilford St
- Violence in the area, people's arguments and altercations
in streets
- Boys smashing milk bottles
- During last few months magpies have been aggressive at
times
- Smell from fish factory when wind is blowing in our
direction
- Petty theft
- Walnut tree shades my property but neighbours won't cut
it down
- Countdown staff park all along the street. Street sweeper
can't sweep
- A domestic incident caused by drink
- Dogs ripping rubbish bags open. There should be a ban on
people preventing them from putting out their rubbish the
night before the collection
- Next door keeps two geese, 11 cats and they all seem to
live on our property, plus he's got rabbits, ferrets and
a dog. It all attracts flies and they use our place as a
toilet. He has the geese to keep his 11 cats out of his
place
- Strong feeling of concern for personal safety (crime rate
in area)
- Prowlers take shortcut over fence in the middle of the
night
- 6 items of lost mail in two years
- Religious groups going door to door
- Traffic races too fast through Bridge St from surf club
to the bridge. Come round the corner and you can't stop
your car else the cars run into the back of you. People
want a raised round-about and there's room for one.
Neighbours have asked the council
- Dog fouling on pavements
- Dogs ripping open the rubbish bags
- Kids fighting or threatening other kids in the adjoining
park. Things thrown over the fence from the park.
Presence in the park put me and my kid off going to the
park
- Warning by school about sex offender in neighbourhood
limited children's area of play and they are not allowed
to walk on the street by themselves
- Door to door sales people
- Bad smell - from fish factory?
- Wandering homeless people
- Odd behaviour by a man, eg lying down in roadway, riding
a bicycle in continuous circles
- Young `idiots' using the street as a racetrack
- Hoons speeding down the street (Jervois St).
- Parking of large vehicles in our very narrow street
- People waiting for buses outside leave rubbish
- They put new roading down and it wasn't sealed for a long
time so that shingle and tar were being walked inside the
house
- Stolen vehicle parked in drive, people running from it,
police coming
- Kerbs aren't swept because of heavy traffic parking
- Cars parking right outside the house all day
- Cars burning up and down streets - suggested speed humps
- Parking across driveway
- Neighbours rubbish getting to be an eyesore
- Male in our complex is a mental patient and a drinker. He
causes problems in our neighbourhood - masturbates on
porch - throws things around
- Burglar
- Over at Torreus Road there is too much vandalism,
burglaries, car interfered with
- People hooning up and down Plunket St in cars
- Our letter box was set on fire
- Noise from jet skis
- Dog pollution around the paths
- Trains
- One tree at side
- Cats
- Cars from shopping centre parked on roadways
- Stolen bike
- Metal drainage cover in middle of Glandovey Road rattles
wildly every time a truck goes by, especially very early
morning
- Cats defecating in the garden
- Speeding cars
- Theft
- Stray cats
- Tina Turner concert
- There have been a few prowlers
- Obstructions on footpath outside shops
- Leaves in gutters
- Trouble with car port building - neighbour complained but
it was built with council permission
- Car-hoons using the street as a speedway - particularly
at the intersection of Ollivers / Wellington and
Byceleigh Streets
- Circular advertising - fills up rubbish bag
- Graffiti artists
- Rubbish usually collected at 6.30. This is too early for
me to get up
- Loud motorbikes
- Fuel smell from planes
- Smell from Belfast freezing works
- Recent rape in area
- Drums of cooking oil spilt at Harewood/Johns Road
roundabout - not cleaned up
- Smoke from burn off from the property behind us
- Noise from community centre
- The dust which ends up inside our house, when they mow
the river bank on the other side of the road in summer
- Wet bikes noise and lack of consideration and welfare of
others
- People always vandalise the bus shelters in Clifton Bay
- Speed, volume of traffic in road
- Rubbish bags torn by dogs and contents scattered because
put out night before
- Park on corner not sprayed properly was covered in clover
- Domestic violence in nearby house
- Dog faeces
- Whitchurch Place untidy and needs rubbish cleaned up
- There is a lack of lighting in this street
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