129 Hereford Street
10 council reports since February 2018, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Hereford Street, 125 reports on file.
On the register here
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 291F High Street (51m)
- Cathedral Square and Setting (109m)
- ChristChurch Cathedral and Setting, 100 Cathedral Square (115m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Chief Post Office, 1 Cathedral Square (121m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 261F High Street (129m)
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
- City Mall, 27 m to the edge
- The Stewart Plaza, 38 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 59 m to the edge · Botanic
- High Street Triangles, 112 m to the edge
- Godley Statue Reserve, 114 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Triangle, 100 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 197 m away · Library
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 335 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 422 m away · Council office
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Miele, 9 m away · Electronics
- Starbucks, 19 m away · Cafés
- The North Face, 36 m away · Clothing
- Canterbury Winery Tours, 37 m away · Wineries
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 Christchurch Central City, 173 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 219 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 243 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 247 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 250 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; 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
- Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally Dedicated on 9 June 1937, 141 m away ·
Citizens’ War Memorial / Originally dedicated on 9 June 1937 / Damaged by the Canterbury E
· 2023 - The Combined Services / [service Crests] / Navy, 145 m away ·
THE COMBINED SERVICES / [service crests] / NAVY / NEW ZEALAND ARMY / AIR FORCE / MERCHANT
· 2023 - Godley Statue Reserve plaque, 188 m away · 1899
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 9 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 10 Oct 2026 Illegally placed bills and graffiti on all rubbish bins spanning the entire length of Hereford St, CBD
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 28 Jun 2026 Illegally placed bills. These have been ones on every rubbish bin & utility casing within the CBD. Require removal.
Graffiti somewhere else, 6 Oct 2024 Illegally placed bills and stickers on all electrical poles & lamp posts spanning the duration of Colombo, Hereford, Cashel, and High Street
Rubbish and Bins - General, 1 Feb 2024 New rubbish bin has not been emptied and now overflowing
Graffiti, 21 Jan 2024 Black paint tag on reverse side of P5 sign by 129 Hereford Street
- Graffiti, 31 Jul 2023
Graffiti, 20 Jun 2022 Vandalised steel rubbish bin needs removal and replacement on SE corner of Cathedral Square.
Graffiti, 20 Jun 2022 Anti vax misinformation sticky tags (plus other sticky tags galore) need removal from tramlines pole 161 on S side of Cathedral Square near
Graffiti, 5 Feb 2018
On Wall across from square.
Graffiti, 5 Feb 2018
All 3 tags are on the same wall
Elsewhere on Hereford Street
- 53 Hereford Street, 125 reports
- 71 Hereford Street, 91 reports
- 48 Hereford Street, 76 reports
- 197 Hereford Street, 62 reports
- 141 Hereford Street, 62 reports
- 262 Hereford Street, 59 reports
- 214 Hereford Street, 53 reports
- 147 Hereford Street, 46 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Hereford Street in 154 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 25 seriously hurt.
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.
Hereford 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
10 council reports on record since February 2018, most often graffiti (6), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (2), rubbish and bins - general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Hereford Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Triangle Reserve and Setting, Cathedral Square and Setting.
City Mall, 27 m to its edge.