170 Tuam Street
4 council reports since March 2021, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 278 Tuam Street, 89 reports on file.
On the register here
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (136m)
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (204m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen, 92 Lichfield Street (218m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, 210 Tuam Street (219m)
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (220m)
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, 245 m to the edge
- Friendship Corner, 274 m to the edge · Botanic
- High Street Triangles, 282 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 297 m to the edge · Botanic
- Tiffany Reserve, 310 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
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 60 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 298 m away · Car park
- Scales, 481 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- The Food Den, 23 m away · Fast food
- Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq, 34 m away · Arcades
- Isushi, 53 m away · Restaurants
- Holey Moley, 59 m away · Arcades
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Platform A), 90 m away · route 3, route 5, route 60, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86
- Bus Interchange (Platform B), 122 m away · route 1, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 9 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 261 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 273 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 276 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 283 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 open map’s record.
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 3 on record
What’s on record
- Water Leak, 16 May 2025
Water coming out of road pavement
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 8 Nov 2024 This was the second one to report. Sorry the previous was doubled up with the first photo I reported earlier.
Graffiti, 23 Feb 2024 Sratchs et h into the mirror in the wheelchair toilet Tuam st end of building
Graffiti, 16 Mar 2021 Already done 16-3-2021 3833918
Elsewhere on Tuam Street
- 278 Tuam Street, 89 reports
- 286 Tuam Street, 52 reports
- 16 Tuam Street, 52 reports
- 94 Tuam Street, 49 reports
- 189 Tuam Street, 38 reports
- 322 Tuam Street, 31 reports
- 284 Tuam Street, 29 reports
- 290 Tuam Street, 28 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Tuam Street in 144 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 18 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.
Tuam 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
4 council reports on record since March 2021, most often graffiti (2), water leak (1), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Tuam Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting.
City Mall, 245 m to its edge.


