Baladin St in Avondale – First appears in street directories in 1988.
A tiny amount of information from the library website. I searched but couldn’t find a reason for the name. Was possibly a surname but ancestry website couldn’t give me anyone living in New Zealand with that name. I searched cemetery databases with no luck. Findagrave only had two people with that surname worldwide. I couldn’t find it as a place name anywhere. I am not even too sure which language it is from as I found it connected to Italian, French and Turkish. Various meanings were wandering entertainer theatical dancer, jester, buffoon and clown.
Only 16 houses houses here and most were built in 1990s and houses are mostly on only side of the street as the rest of the street is in the red zone. One house was raised above the street and the rest of the houses and it looked slightly odd. Checked street view and it is a rebuild and the original house wasn’t raised.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 