Christchurch Street Names: S - Christchurch City Libraries

Current
name
Christchurch Street Names: S
Former
name
Scoular Place Named after
Peter Gray
Scoular (1924-
1983).
Origin of name Suburb Additional information See Source Further
information
Avondale Scoular was chief engineer of the
Christchurch City Council during
the 1970s through to 1982.
The Christchurch Drainage Board
owned an area of low-lying land
in Avondale which they filled up
with dredgings from the river so
the land could be subdivided and
built on.
The Board named the streets
formed there and former board
and staff members of the
Drainage Board were among
those honoured in the naming. At
the time of naming of the streets
it was intended to have 11 streets
and cul-de-sacs in the new
subdivision.
Name approved on 21 November
1984.
First appears in street directories
in 1987.
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Peter Scoular
Park, also De
Courcy Place,
Gertrude
Place, Hunt
Lane, Mervyn
Drive, Ogilvie
Place and
Waddell Lane.
Information supplied in
2007 by Paul Baldwin,
Christchurch City
Council in an interview
with Margaret Harper.
"Board may restrict
sewage flows", The
Press, 29 November
1984
“Former city
engineer dies”,
Christchurch Star,
30 December 1983,
p 3
Planning quarterly,
Number 161, June
2006, pp 15-16
Christchurch,
swamp to city: a
short history of the
Christchurch
Drainage Board
1875-1989, pp 92-
93
"Subdivision
auctioned", The
Press, 20 February
1984
"Property market",
The Press, 2 June
1984