Desi Place – nothing on new or old library website. I couldn’t find out anything about this street. I checked council minutes but that only gave me information about restricting parking on the street. I have come up with a theory about the name of the street but couldn’t find any proof. The street runs off Nuttall Drive and I did find a Des Nuttall but Ancestry and Papers Past didn’t help. I checked old maps and the street wasn’t there in 1983 and street view has it fairly well established in 2008.
I find that Sunday is the best day for walking streets in industrial areas. Obviously it is mostly businesses here but a couple of the properties looked like there are people living in them. There is a footpath on both sides of the street which normally means that it is an older street. I have always frequently driven along Port Hills going to Lyttelton but I can’t remember when this area was developed.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 