156 Madras Street
1 council report since July 2020, 1 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- 129 High Street, 1/129 High Street (64m)
- Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings, 147 High Street (101m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, 181 High Street (186m)
- 319 St Asaph Street, 319 St Asaph Street (220m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 189F High Street (235m)
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
- Wilson Park, 23 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 307 m to the edge · Botanic
- Gasson Reserve, 374 m to the edge
- Washington Way Reserve, 415 m to the edge · Sports ground
- Science Alive Reserve, 433 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, 113 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Flux - Boxed Quarter, 8 m away · Bars & pubs
- BobaLab, 10 m away · Cafés
- Zaytun, 12 m away · Fast food
- Miss Bing - Boxed Quarter, 13 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Madras St near Southwark St, 28 m away · route 8, route 84, route 85, route 95
- Ara Institute, 135 m away · route 1, route 3, route 5, route 80, route 81
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 41 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 41 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 160 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 355 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
- ‘corgis on High’ — Christchurch City Public Artwork, 224 m away ·
‘Corgis on High’ — Christchurch City public artwork, 6 December 2003
· 2009 - The First Public Water Supply Well Was Drilled Near This, 230 m away ·
THE FIRST PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY WELL was drilled near this site on 10 February 1864 by the C
· 2009
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
- Graffiti, 1
Photographed here 1 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti, 2 Jul 2020 Miss Bing cafe Road side
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
1 council report on record since July 2020, most often graffiti (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, 129 High Street, Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings.
Wilson Park, 23 m to its edge.