Myrtle Road and Coprosma Road and Hebe Road and Dahlia Drive and Petunia Drive are all new streets that run off Zinnia Way. They are too new to be on the library website but they are on google maps.
Information from Council website. Road names have been requested by Awatea Park Limited for road(s) at Awatea Park in Hornby which is within a greenfield area bounded by Carrs Road, Awatea Road, Owaka Road and the Christchurch Southern Motorway. The suggested road names have a botanical theme.
9th May 2017 – the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board resolve to approve the following road names:

Myrtle Road – Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtacede.

Coprosma Road – Coprosma is a genus of flowering plants in the Rubiaceae family.

Dahlia Drive – Dahlia is a genus of bushy, tuberous, herbaceous perennial plants native to Dahlia Mexico.

Petunia Drive – Petunia is a genus of 35 species of flowering plants of South American origin.

Hebe Road – Hebe is a genus of plants native to New Zealand, Rapa in French Polynesia, the Falkland Islands, and South America.

Newly built house mostly brick and some had riverstone columns. Still many empty sections waiting for buyers. As usual with modern small streets there was a footpath on only one side of the street. Houses mostly had just lawns but a couple had flowers.
On Myrtle Road there were three lanes that haven’t been named yet and either half built houses or empty sections here.
Hebe Road has the potential to be confusing as there is a Hebe Lane over in Groynes area.
Another area that doesn’t know if it is in Hornby or Wigram.

Harvard Ave – Named after the Harvard aeroplane. A name from the old airbase preserved when the land was subdivided in 1998 to form the Wigram subdivision. First appears in street directories in 1987.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to this. Houses are on part of this street but there is also the Airforce Museum, Harvard Park and the Archives New Zealand. I hadn’t realised that Archives New Zealand was here as my memory is of them being near the centre of the city. I was overseas living in the UK when the earthquakes happened and didn’t manage to keep up with all the news. Please don’t tell me that I was lucky to have missed the earthquakes. I still feel that I have missed a big part of Christchurch’s history and it was the only time that I was homesick. My son also had to go to a funeral on my behalf.

My son went to Wigram Scouts and I remember all the fundraising to move the scout den from Wigram land to South Hornby school after the land was sold off.

Isitt Lane – Named after Leonard Monk Isitt (1891-1976). Sir Leonard Isitt was a military aviator and leader and aviation administrator. He was based at Sockburn for a time after serving in World War One (1914- 1918). Continues the aviation theme of street names used in the Wigram Skies subdivision.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. I couldn’t walk this street as it was blocked by a gate and big No Entry signs. The lane was at the back of the Airforce Museum.

Red Checkers Place – Named after the Red Checkers, the RNZAF aerobatic team. The team frequently performed over Wigram Air Force Base. Continues the theme of naming the streets in the subdivision after military aircraft and/or names having a connection with the former Wigram Air Force Base. The developers sought advice from the Air Force Museum. Named in 2005.

A reasonable amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. A short street that backs onto what used to be the airforce base. Most the houses were modern brick houses built mid 2000s.

Doppler Place -Named after the Pulse-Doppler, a 4D radar system. In the Wigram Skies subdivision where the streets have an aviation theme. Named in 2014.

A small amount of information from the library website and nothing that I can add to it. A small street with modern houses that are mostly built around 2015 to 2016. Names of the streets are more interesting than the actual streets.

Lightning Close – Named after the Electric Lightning, a supersonic jet fighter aircraft of the Cold War era. In a further stage of the subdivision of Wigram Base. Continues the theme of using the names of military aircraft for street names in the subdivision. Named in 2001.

A wee bit of information from the library website and nothing that I can add here. Houses are built in the period of 2000 to 2009. Mostly brick houses and nothing stood out for me.

Glebe Place – not on library website under street names. Couldn’t find any extra information online and it isn’t on QV website. I couldn’t even find real estate ads for it. have walked this tiny street so I know that it does exist and the houses are mostly fairly modern brick houses. I found two possible reasons for the name. One is that Glebe means church land but I suspect that the real reason for the name relates to Gloster Glebe fighter plane. I found a blog on the library website about Henry Wigram donating money in 1923 to the government for the purchase of a Gloster Glebe plane.

Rosa Lane and Berina Lane are too new to be on the library website and they aren’t on google maps yet either.
Brand new houses on these private lanes and unfinished houses as well.
Dellaca Lane and Dominico Lane are too new to be on the library website but are on google maps These are private lanes with new and unfinished houses.
Brusio Drive is too new to be on the library website but it is on google maps.
Real estate agents can’t make up their minds if these streets are in Wigram or Hornby.
Managed to get interesting information online from council minutes.
That the Halswell-Hornby-Riccarton Community Board resolve to approve the following road names: 13/12/2016 – Awatea Road Subdivision
a. Dellaca Lane
b. Dominico Lane
c. Brusio Drive
d. Bernina Lane
e. Rosa Lane

Awatea Road Subdivision
4.4.1 Barbara Joan Road was approved for the spine road running through this subdivision.
4.4.2 Three rights-of-way are being constructed off Barbara Joan Road.
4.4.3 The names proposed for the three rights-of-way are Dellaca Lane, Dominico Lane and Brusio Drive.
4.4.4 The Dellaca Lane name can be traced back to the 15th century and honours many of the Dellaca family who arrived from Switzerland.

4.4.5 Dominico is the Christian name of the first Dellaca to arrive in New Zealand in 1905. It is the current middle name of three generations.
4.4.6 Brusio is a small village in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubunden. It is 25 kilometres from the Italian border and the language spoken is Italian or Romanish.
4.4.7 Two other names have been submitted for an access leg to serve a comprehensive development in part of the subdivision. They are Bernina Lane and Rosa Lane.
4.4.8 Bernina – the village of Brusio is in the district of Bernina in the Swiss Alps. The landowners were from the Bernina district.
4.4.9 Rosa is for Rosa Augusta Dellaca, wife of Dominico Dellaca.