178 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central City
22 reports on record since August 2018 · 16 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 53 Hereford Street — 125 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 16 on record
Reported here
Street Cleaning — oil/fuel has spilt from a vehicle. can see it through the intersection, then trailing down hereford street heading west towards hagley park.
Trees - General — hedging/decorative plantings ripped up, snapped off, soil strewn on footpath
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Graffiti
Graffiti somewhere else —
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset — Traffic lights cabinet
Roads - General — Re Temporary Traffic “Management” Roadworks and detour signs associated with Madras/Barbadoes works have been left scattered about on footp
- General Request —
Any chance that a slow down sign can be painted on the joint pavement and cycle way that runs directly outside the Carriage quarter terraces
- Pavement - General —
Smashed glass all throughout the Manchester/Hereford intersection
Graffiti somewhere else — Phone box on corner
- Graffiti —
- Damaged Street Sign —
Graffiti —
Graffiti — Black paint tags inside Spark phone box on the corner of Hereford and Manchester Streets.
Graffiti —
Graffiti —
Parks — this problem is getting worse by the day as the water keeps coming out of the irrigation system in volumes which is greater than the ground
Road Signage —
faded yellow lines - need to be repainted
- Damaged Street Sign —
Missing signs as they are more than 100m apart - P120 Mon-Fri 9am-5pm
Water Supply — ungernt job as ccc contract footpath works are underway
Wastewater/Stormwater —
Near miss, Manhole with no lid this morning, put a road cone on top
Graffiti —
- Roading/Streets —
Incredibly short light timings heading east west on hereford st at Manchester st corner. Causing major traffic problems.
Also reported 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 — 53 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 green nearby
- City Mall — 150 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles — 171 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square — 193 m to the edge · Botanic
- The Stewart Plaza — 202 m to the edge
- Latimer Square — 211 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Triangle — 210 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library — 290 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- Re:start - Lichfield St — 411 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Mexico — 24 m away · Restaurants
- Consular Office of Japan in New Zealand — 33 m away · Diplomatic
- Mexico Restaurant — 34 m away · Restaurants
- Kensington Fun House Bar — 44 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 — 83 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 — 147 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 — 8 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 130 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 356 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 372 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 372 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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 — 150 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 — 229 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 was here — 167 Hereford Street
41 m away · 167 Hereford Street · located to ±11 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building
88 m away · 217 Manchester Street · located to ±6 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Commercial Building and Setting, Former State Insurance
100 m away · 58/28 Cathedral Square · located to ±28 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting
103 m away · 124 Worcester Street · located to ±14 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Former Government Buildings and Setting
138 m away · 26/28 Cathedral Square · located to ±43 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward — the Papanui-Innes-Central community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
22 council reports on record since August 2018 — most often graffiti (6), graffiti somewhere else (2), damaged street sign (2).
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 — 150 m to its edge.











