120DL Madras Street
19 council reports since September 2024, 19 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Grosvenor Hotel and Setting, 367 Moorhouse Avenue (55m)
From the air, then
Sourced from Canterbury Maps and partners. LINZ, 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
- Gasson Reserve, 101 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve, 165 m to the edge
- Washington Way Reserve, 197 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Wilson Park, 264 m to the edge
- Carlyle Reserve, 487 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- St Asaph, 353 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Jyoti Indian Cuisine, 24 m away · Restaurants
- Dubbba Deluxe, 53 m away · Restaurants
- Hang Seng Foodbar, 60 m away · Fast food
- Bali / Thai Cuisine, 62 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Madras St Terminus, 57 m away · route 8, route 84, route 85
- Moorhouse Ave near Madras St, 86 m away · route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 80 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 80 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 242 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 256 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 306 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
Named places within 1.5 km of this address; the council’s own structure register, bridges, boardwalks and steps standing nearby, the open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Rail Workers Memorial This Site Is Dedicated to Rail, 196 m away ·
RAIL WORKERS MEMORIAL THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO RAIL WORKERS WHO WERE KILLED OR SERIOUSLY
· 2008
Inscribed plaques within two hundred and fifty metres, the register’s pins, not surveyed spots. The whole roll is at /plaques.
Renting nearby
new bonds in Christchurch Central City ran about $508 a week, $42 below the city median of $550, the suburb page keeps the rent record →.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 19 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Sept 2026 graffiti on light lamp post pole nearby
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Sept 2026 graffiti on concrete and green post structure
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Sept 2026 graffiti on light lamp post pole nearby
Road Signage, 21 Jul 2026 road sign down and in the bushes
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 10 Feb 2026 graffiti on light lamp post pole
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Nov 2025 several graffiti sticks on sign near agapanthus
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Nov 2025 graffiti on light lamp post pole
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 29 Nov 2025 om concrete below sign edge near footpath near woolworths Madras st entrance
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 12 Nov 2025 graffiti on light lamp post
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 19 Mar 2025 Tags on a light post neat countdown.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 19 Mar 2025 Tags, stickers on sign board at Countdown car park.
Graffiti somewhere else, 28 Jan 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 28 Jan 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 25 Sept 2024 Black paint tag (plus sticky notes) on concrete lamp pole by Countdown carpark on Madras Street a tad north of Moorhouse Avenue.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 25 Sept 2024 Tags on Countdown signpole facing the footpath on Madras Street north of Moorhouse Avenue.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 25 Sept 2024 Orange paint tag on polytechnic substation on Madras Street a tad north of Fitzgerald Avenue
Poles and Signage - General, 25 Sept 2024 Signpole either needs a new sign or total removal from Madras Street a tad north of Bealey Avenue.
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 1 Sept 2024 Orange paint tag on polytechnic substation at 120 Madras Street opposite Woolworths carpark
Dumped Rubbish, 1 Sept 2024 2 poly bags of rubbish dumped in the bushes on Madras Street opposite Woolworths carpark on Madras Street.
Elsewhere on Madras Street
- 153 Madras Street, 73 reports
- 169 Madras Street, 50 reports
- 145 Madras Street, 49 reports
- 282 Madras Street, 37 reports
- 160 Madras Street, 35 reports
- 163 Madras Street, 32 reports
- 281 Madras Street, 29 reports
- 167 Madras Street, 28 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Madras Street in 161 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 17 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward, the Papanui-Innes-Central 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.
Madras Street, the whole record → · Everything about Christchurch Central City → · 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
19 council reports on record since September 2024, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (9), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (3), graffiti somewhere else (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Grosvenor Hotel and Setting.
Gasson Reserve, 101 m to its edge.











