Renfrew St in Upper Riccarton – First appears in street directories in 1950.
A tiny amount of information from the library website. It has either been named after a person or after Renfrew near Glasgow Airport. Very little information on Papers Past apart from a few death notices. The most interesting article was in 1971 where the residents of the street objected to a Mr R L Kennedy adding extra units to his existing blocks of flats. The residents feared that it would affect the pleasant character of their street. Mr Kennedy was refused permission to build the extra units.
There were a couple of houses from 1940 and several from 1960s. There are possibly social housing. The houses built in 1950s seem to be privately owned and were definitely the tidier places. Many houses are promoted for students to rents. There was a big block of flats that looked like social housing but couldn’t find anything online to say that they were social housing.
I didn’t really like this street.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 