205 Madras Street
11 council reports since March 2019, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company, 101/158 High Street (135m)
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, 181 High Street (145m)
- 158 High Street, G01/158 High Street (145m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 189F High Street (155m)
- Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings, 147 High Street (162m)
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, 199 m to the edge · Botanic
- Wilson Park, 203 m to the edge
- Latimer Square, 306 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- City Mall, 393 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 420 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
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Snap Fitness, 5 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Saladbar, 8 m away · Fast food
- Brown Bread Ltd, 21 m away · Business
- Mosaic by Simo City Centre, 28 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Tuam St near Madras St, 101 m away · route 1, route 3, route 5, route 80
- Madras St near Southwark St, 259 m away · route 8, route 84, route 85, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 70 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 128 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 191 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 233 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 417 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
- ‘corgis on High’ — Christchurch City Public Artwork, 151 m away ·
‘Corgis on High’ — Christchurch City public artwork, 6 December 2003
· 2009 - The First Public Water Supply Well Was Drilled Near This, 154 m away ·
THE FIRST PUBLIC WATER SUPPLY WELL was drilled near this site on 10 February 1864 by the C
· 2009
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 sign, mural or public art, 8 Oct 2026 graffiti on sign.
Poles and Signage - General, 17 Nov 2025 Graffiti on loght pole
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 17 Nov 2025 Graffiti on sign board
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 17 Nov 2025 Graffiti on bench
- Accessibility, 31 Oct 2025
These need to go. Look terrible. Need to put in car parks for Snap Fitness members only . Theses were left behind after road works
Hazard, vehicle, 17 Jun 2024 Car blocking the disabled access to the innovation car park. This is a no parking zone.
Graffiti somewhere else, 27 Mar 2024 white and black graffiti on green skip
- Graffiti, 15 Nov 2022
Roading/Streets, 13 Aug 2021
Why do the STMS at city roadwor k s put out signs and then never check them? This road sign was tipped over by the drunks one week ago.
Roading/Streets, 12 Apr 2021
Warehouse trolley abandoned
Roading/Streets, 13 Mar 2019
Be cool to have some free bike stands down Ash Street lane.
Elsewhere on Madras Street
- 153 Madras Street, 73 reports
- 169 Madras Street, 50 reports
- 145 Madras Street, 49 reports
- 282 Madras Street, 37 reports
- 160 Madras Street, 35 reports
- 163 Madras Street, 32 reports
- 281 Madras Street, 29 reports
- 167 Madras Street, 28 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Madras Street in 161 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 17 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.
Madras 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
11 council reports on record since March 2019, most often roading/streets (3), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (2), poles and signage - general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Commercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company, Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites.
Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 199 m to its edge.