Allison Place in Shirley – formerly Bond Place. Developed on farmland previously owned by Arthur William Emmett (d. 1948) and sold after his death. Part of the land was bought by the government for a state housing area “laid out on modern town planning lines”. It was referred to as Emmetts Block. Bond Place was named on 24 June 1948. Re-named Allison Place on 14 September 1948 as Bond Place was seen as “a name conflicting with a similar name in the Christchurch City”.
A reasonable amount of information from the library website. I couldn’t find out anything about the name of this street. There didn’t seem to be a connection to the Emmett family. Not much information on Papers Past and there were a few ads plus a few death notices.
The houses here were built in 1940 and 1990. Two of the houses from 1940 are privately owned but the rest are still state houses / social housing. It wasn’t the most comfortable street to walk and many of the houses looked unkempt with lots of rubbish in the front yards. The houses from 1990 were behind the 1940s houses.
Lytteltonwitch's Walking the streets of Christchurch Project 