18A Welles Street
12 council reports since September 2022, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Welles Street, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (116m)
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (129m)
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (164m)
- New City Hotel and Setting (206m)
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, 369 m to the edge · Botanic
- Carlyle Reserve, 404 m to the edge
- Wilson Park, 430 m to the edge
- Science Alive Reserve, 478 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve, 481 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, 320 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Xolo, 28 m away · Restaurants
- Salut Salut, 35 m away · Bars & pubs
- Barefoot Eatery, 43 m away · Cafés
- Flourish Foliage, 45 m away · Gift shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- South City (Northbound), 128 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Smiths City (Southbound), 128 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 171 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 249 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 266 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 267 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 276 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 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
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 13 Nov 2025 Graffiti
Pothole, 12 Feb 2024 Drain area in quill lane has fallen in and needs replacing
- Graffiti, 18 Nov 2023
- Vandalism - General, 27 Sept 2023
- Vandalism - General, 27 Sept 2023
- Pavement - Damaged, 27 Sept 2023
- Damaged Street Sign, 20 Sept 2023
- Vandalism - General, 7 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 3 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 23 Sept 2022
- Graffiti, 23 Sept 2022
Vandalism - General, 12 Sept 2022 Graffiti on a Orion building Previously a old MED building
Elsewhere on Welles Street
- 25 Welles Street, 37 reports
- 10 Welles Street, 33 reports
- 22 Welles Street, 30 reports
- 44 Welles Street, 28 reports
- 41 Welles Street, 27 reports
- 7 Welles Street, 23 reports
- 37 Welles Street, 18 reports
- 45 Welles Street, 17 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Welles Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Welles 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
12 council reports on record since September 2022, most often vandalism - general (4), graffiti (4), pothole (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Welles Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting.
Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 369 m to its edge.