Palatine Tce in St Martins or possibly Huntsbury – Formerly River Road. Named because it runs alongside the Heathcote River. Re-named Palatine Terrace. A palatine is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. River Road does not appear in street directories. C. W. Jones wrote to the Heathcote County Council in 1934 asking for River Road to be re-named. the council decided to re-name it Palatine Terrace. The request was made by Charles Whittington Jones, a sanitary inspector and a resident of Palatine Terrace in 1936, the first year it appears in street directories.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. Note that not all of River Rd in this area became Palatine Tce as part of it became Riverlaw Tce. There was a confusing article from 1973 where it states that part of Riverlaw Tce between Burnbrae St and Ensors Rd bridge was renamed as being part Palatine Tce. I forgot to check old maps as Ensors Rd isn’t near Palantine Tce.
The man Charles W Jones who requested the name change lost his house to a fire in 1931. In 1965 there was a letter to the editor suggesting that the old Kowhai nursery on Palantine Tce be turned into sections for houses.
I actually walked this street in August 2021 and was possibly checking a friend’s geocache. The street runs from Centaurus Rd to Burnbrae St. There is an entrance to Farnley Reserve near Centaurus Rd. Weirdly some websites say that Farnley Reserve is on Eastern Tce but I assure you that it isn’t. The houses are on only one side of the street for the rather obvious reason of the Heathcote River is on the other side. There is also a playground at Palantine Reserve. A pleasant street and probably less likely to flood than the other side of the river as it is slightly higher. Most houses were built in the 1970s.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 