172 High Street
13 council reports since April 2022, 10 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 146 High Street, 57 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company, 101/158 High Street (34m)
- 158 High Street, G01/158 High Street (39m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, 201 High Street (44m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 215F High Street (61m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 189F High Street (62m)
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
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 51 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 255 m to the edge
- Wilson Park, 276 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 283 m to the edge
- Latimer Square, 313 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
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, 297 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 347 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 367 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Earl, 18 m away · Restaurants
- Smash Palace, 22 m away · Bars & pubs
- Brick Farm, 27 m away · Restaurants
- The Dog Box Barber Shop, 43 m away · Hairdressers
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Platform D), 213 m away · route 1, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
- Bus Interchange (Platform C), 240 m away · route 3, route 5, route 29, route 60, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 83 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 84 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 92 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 262 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 400 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
- The First Public Water Supply Well Was Drilled Near This, 66 m away ·
THE FIRST PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY WELL was drilled near this site on 10 February 1864 by the C
· 2009 - ‘corgis on High’ — Christchurch City Public Artwork, 70 m away ·
‘Corgis on High’ — Christchurch City public artwork, 6 December 2003
· 2009 - Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / the Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015, 228 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015
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 10 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 9 Sept 2026 Broken glass and rubbish at the exit of Butchers Lane onto High Street
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 24 Dec 2025 tagging on brick building
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 15 Dec 2025 graffiti on black wooden fence
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Jul 2025 Graffiti on fence
Graffiti somewhere else, 30 Jul 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 27 Mar 2024 white and black graffiti on pole
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 27 Mar 2024
lots of graffiti on hazchem sign
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 27 Mar 2024 black graffiti on fence artwork
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 27 Mar 2024 white graffiti on power pole government
- Graffiti, 22 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 22 Nov 2023
Graffiti, 31 Jul 2022
Graffiti, 21 Apr 2022 Graffiti on the metal lamp posts along ‘Butchers Lane’ surrounding Smash Palace.
Elsewhere on High Street
- 146 High Street, 57 reports
- 285 High Street, 42 reports
- 188 High Street, 41 reports
- 291F High Street, 35 reports
- 181 High Street, 34 reports
- 216 High Street, 29 reports
- 269 High Street, 26 reports
- 250 High Street, 26 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names High Street in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 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.
High 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
13 council reports on record since April 2022, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (4), graffiti (4), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on High Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company, 158 High Street.
Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 51 m to its edge.