Christchurch Street Names: B - Christchurch City Libraries

Christchurch Street Names B
Current name Former name Origin of name Suburb Additional
information
Begonia Lane Hornby One of the partners in
the development
company, Enterprise
Homes, is a keen
gardener. The streets
in this subdivision all
have the names of
flowers.
Named in 2000 in the
first stage of the
subdivision.
Belair Close Named after Belinda
Blair.
Christchurch City Libraries
Updated July 2013
Burwood Kevin and Judy Blair
bought a horse
paddock next to New
Brighton Road for
their daughter's horse
in the early 1980s
and later subdivided
the land. Judy Blair
was a well-known
netball coach in the
late 1960s and her
daughter, Belinda,
became a Silver Fern
netball player.
First appears in street
directories in 1993.
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information
Awatea Gardens,
Clematis Place,
Jasmine Place,
Protea Place and
Robinia Place.
Riccarton/Wigram
Community Board
agenda 1 March 2000
Dunair Drive "Dunair Estates" The
Press, 16 April 1997, p
19