139 Madras Street
5 council reports since June 2020, 5 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 (75m)
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, 96 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve, 153 m to the edge
- Washington Way Reserve, 230 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Wilson Park, 272 m to the edge
- Carlyle Reserve, 450 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, 367 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Jyoti Indian Cuisine, 20 m away · Restaurants
- Hang Seng Foodbar, 45 m away · Fast food
- Moorhouse Ave Countdown, 47 m away · Supermarkets
- New York Deli - Moorhouse Central, 47 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Madras St Terminus, 68 m away · route 8, route 84, route 85
- Moorhouse Ave near Manchester St, 88 m away · route 27, route 84, route 85, route 95, route 140
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 76 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 204 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 292 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 321 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 open map’s record.
The remembered names nearby
- Rail Workers Memorial This Site Is Dedicated to Rail, 184 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 16 Jun 2026 Illegally parked in an accessible parking spot. No permit displayed, parked over lines.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 30 May 2025 Graffiti covering both sides of static display, again. Manchester Street end of walkway between Mata Lane and Manchester Street.
Hazard, vehicle, 8 Jan 2025 They have taken 1 car park and is hanging over the road , it is unsafe and u can't see around it
Rubbish and Bins - General, 7 Sept 2022 Apparently dumped sign on Moorhouse Avenue outside Countdown carpark needs removal.
Graffiti, 18 Jun 2020 At Madras Street, City cafe which is Asian Cuisine building. Christchurch city.
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
5 council reports on record since June 2020, most often hazard, vehicle (2), rubbish and bins - general (1), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names a place at or beside it, Former Grosvenor Hotel and Setting.
Gasson Reserve, 96 m to its edge.