Melissa Place in Burnside and nothing on the library website. It surprised me that there wasn’t an entry on the library website as all the properties here were built in 1980. The street runs off Crosdale Place and ends at a wee reserve Coringa Reserve. When I walked this street yesterday I assumed that it would have been named after a person but I was wrong. It is probably named after a flower called melissa lilac which is a lavender plant. A nearby street is Lavandula Crescent. The gardens here are lovely and it looked like a pleasant street.
Edited to say that there is a connection to Avice Hill and she subdivided this land in 1960s along with Ethel Francis.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 