176 Hereford Street
9 council reports since January 2018, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Hereford Street, 125 reports on file.
On the register here
- 167 Hereford Street, 167 Hereford Street (36m)
- Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building, 217 Manchester Street (94m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former State Insurance, 58/28 Cathedral Square (103m)
- Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting, 124 Worcester Street (108m)
- Former Government Buildings and Setting, 26/28 Cathedral Square (135m)
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, 135 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 156 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 185 m to the edge · Botanic
- The Stewart Plaza, 187 m to the edge
- Latimer Square, 225 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
- Triangle, 194 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 286 m away · Library
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 397 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Consular Office of Japan in New Zealand, 18 m away · Diplomatic
- Mexico, 30 m away · Restaurants
- Mexico Restaurant, 38 m away · Restaurants
- Kensington Fun House Bar, 40 m away · Venues & events
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St Super Stop, 89 m away · route 1, route 5, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 86, route 91, route 92, route 95
- Hereford St near Colombo St, 134 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 22 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 137 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 350 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 361 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 377 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
- Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / the Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015, 138 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015 - In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert, 236 m away ·
IN MEMORY OF / JAIME ROBERT MCDOWELL GILBERT / WHO LOST HIS LIFE / AT THIS LOCATION IN THE
· 2018
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 bus stop or public toilet, 9 Jul 2025 Graffiti at the bus stop on Manchester Street North Bound
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Mar 2025 Both south and east wall
Overgrown Vegetation, 6 Nov 2024 Some weeding, maintenance and additional planting is required
Graffiti somewhere else, 17 Sept 2024
Graffiti, 5 Aug 2022
Graffiti, 5 May 2022 Black paint tag plus sticky tags galore on steel lamp pole by167 Hereford Street.
Roading/Streets, 29 May 2020 For CTOC 2 more Fulton Hogan signs on footpath without cones on the pedestrian side
Roading/Streets, 25 Apr 2018
Trip hazard. Health and safetry risk
Graffiti, 24 Jan 2018
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, 54 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
9 council reports on record since January 2018, most often graffiti (3), roading/streets (2), overgrown vegetation (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Hereford Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, 167 Hereford Street, Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building.
City Mall, 135 m to its edge.






