78 Colombo Street
5 council reports since September 2022, 2 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 80 Colombo Street, 11 reports on file.
On the register here
- The Malthouse and Setting, 69 Colombo Street (41m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. RNZAF, CC BY 3.0 NZ. Each frame is cut from Environment Canterbury’s historic imagery MapServer for that decade, only where the Footprints layer names a CC BY survey (NZAM-covered spots stay out). RetroLens holds more Crown aerials →
The green nearby
- Ernle Clark Reserve, 251 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Colombo Reserve, 298 m to the edge
- Waimea Reserve, 303 m to the edge
- Thorrington Reserve, 457 m to the edge · playground, 23 pieces
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- South Christchurch Library, 90 m away · Library
- Beckenham Service Centre, 97 m away · Service centre
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Canterbury Childrens Theatre, 31 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Malthouse Costumes, 35 m away · Rental
- She Chocolaterie, 55 m away · Sweets & snacks
- Opawa Farmers' Market, 74 m away · Markets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 6 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 28 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 59 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 104 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Beckenham, 202 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named water within 500 m of this address, measured to the line or the edge, the open map’s record.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Beckenham ran about $620 a week, $70 above the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
- Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
- Dumped Rubbish, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
Photographed here 2 on record
What’s on record
Damaged Road, 28 Jul 2026 No markings of this extreme stand out point of metal grate.
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 4 Mar 2026 White paint tag on metal lamp pole by 78 Colombo Street.
- Graffiti, 21 May 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 9 Feb 2023
- General Request, 29 Sept 2022
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 80 Colombo Street, 11 reports
- 92 Colombo Street, 9 reports
- 86 Colombo Street, 7 reports
- 101 Colombo Street, 7 reports
- 81 Colombo Street, 3 reports
- 70 Colombo Street, 2 reports
- 103 Colombo Street, 2 reports
- 88 Colombo Street, 1 report
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 3 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Cashmere ward, the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board is its local layer. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre. The whole roll is at /wards.
Colombo Street, the whole record → · Everything about Beckenham → · What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air, RetroLens holds the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address there →
Questions, answered briefly
5 council reports on record since September 2022, most often graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1), graffiti (1), general request (1).
Beckenham, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, The Malthouse and Setting.
Ernle Clark Reserve, 251 m to its edge, 2 ha.

