197 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central City
62 reports on record since August 2020 · 51 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 51 on record
Reported here
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge — 
Hazard — vehicle — This car has been parking here illegally for the last three working days.
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — Light blue paint tag on bus stop sign by 197 Hereford Street.
Dumped Rubbish — Litter bins have been knocked over onto road. Outside Hauora Park near 197 Hereford Street.
Road Signage — The signs/frameworks/cone have been on the footpath/road for several weeks. Could they please be removed as they serve no purpose. They are
Rubbish and Bins - General — Rubbish bin broken and fallen over
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Road Signage — Uprooted road signage
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Can this graffiti please be removed. Thank you
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — Graffiti
Graffiti on a bus stop or public toilet — Graffiti at this bus stop
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Appeared this morning
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — Can this graffiti please be removed. Thank you.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — 
Graffiti somewhere else — 
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Overgrown Vegetation — The garden around the street trees in this location is very over grown with weeds. Can this please be fixed.
Graffiti somewhere else — 
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Overgrown Vegetation — Could these 2 garden plots please be weeded. Thank you.
Poles and Signage - General — Pole has been taken out of holder
Graffiti somewhere else — Just over from these apartments
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Graffiti — Could this graffiti please be removed
Street Gutters / Storm Water — There is a grate missing on this drain. Can it please be replaced as it is very deep and therefore dangerous.
Graffiti — Cabinet oppsite 1/197 Hereford st
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Graffiti — Could this graffiti please be removed. Thank you
Graffiti — Opposite paddy mcnaughtons
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Graffiti — WEAK green paint tag on dark green lamp pole on Latimer Square north of Hereford Street.
Rubbish/Recycling — Bins broken . Between 197 Hereford and Manchester st
Rubbish/Recycling — I see the morons are back again at a rubbish station adjacent to Hereford Street. The first photos were before I touched the rubbish bin and
Graffiti — The feral people have struck again. Can someone please organise the graffiti fixer to strike back.
Graffiti — Anti vax misinformation sticky tag on steel lamp pole on the corner of Latimer Square and Hereford Street.
Graffiti — Anti vax sticky tag on road sign on the corner of Latimer Square and Hereford Street. Obscuring the sign.
Graffiti — Black paint tag and anti vax misinformation sticky tag on steel lamp pole on the corner of Latimer Square and Hereford Street.
Graffiti — 
Roading/Streets — What happened to the lovely brick pavers? There was a services repair recently, road was dug up and replace with ugly tarmac. Why bother la
Rubbish/Recycling — Paint flakes from recently paint stripped brick walls all over footpath and gardens slowly blowing towards drains
Roading/Streets — History has no supporting stakes
Roading/Streets — Could the council pleased get these leaves cleaned up. Thank you
Roading/Streets — Could the meter cover please be replaced as it is badly cracked and is a danger. Thank you
Parks — Concrete path chipped outside 2/197 Hereford Street (Council Property(
Also reported on Hereford Street
- 53 Hereford Street — 125 reports
- 71 Hereford Street — 91 reports
- 48 Hereford Street — 76 reports
- 141 Hereford Street — 62 reports
- 262 Hereford Street — 59 reports
- 214 Hereford Street — 53 reports
- 147 Hereford Street — 46 reports
- 12 Hereford Street — 43 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
- Latimer Square — 77 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- City Mall — 279 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square — 298 m to the edge · Botanic
- High Street Triangles — 304 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve — 314 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Triangle — 347 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library — 373 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Club — 65 m away · Clubs
- Les Mills Gym — 110 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Caffeine Kick Cafe — 127 m away · Cafés
- Mexico — 142 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Latimer Square — 30 m away · route 60
- Hereford St near Latimer Square — 39 m away · route 60
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 96 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 126 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 338 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 358 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 388 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
- In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert — 224 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 — Christchurch Club and Setting
78 m away · 154 Worcester Street · located to ±16 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Latimer Square and Setting
151 m away · located to ±119 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building
152 m away · 217 Manchester Street · located to ±6 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Façade and Setting, Former New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury Ltd
160 m away · 214 Cashel Street · located to ±26 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting
162 m away · 124 Worcester Street · located to ±14 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
62 council reports on record since August 2020 — most often graffiti (26), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (8), graffiti somewhere else (5).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Hereford Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — Christchurch Club and Setting, Latimer Square and Setting.
Latimer Square — 77 m to its edge, 2 ha.