21 Latimer Square
9 council reports since January 2016, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Latimer Square, 38 reports on file.
On the register here
- Latimer Square and Setting (50m)
- Christchurch Club and Setting, 154 Worcester Street (61m)
- Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building, 217 Manchester Street (219m)
- Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting, 124 Worcester Street (221m)
- Former MED Converter Station and Substation, 102/210 Armagh Street (231m)
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
- Latimer Square, 9 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Poplars Reserve, 354 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cathedral Square, 354 m to the edge · Botanic
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 374 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 401 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
- Turanga Library, 400 m away · Library
- Triangle, 457 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Club, 71 m away · Clubs
- Christchurch Central City Apartment, 93 m away · Apartments
- Bloody Mary's, 126 m away · Bars & pubs
- Cathedral Square Market, 150 m away · Markets
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 114 m away · route 5, route 7
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 121 m away · route 5, route 7
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 18 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 196 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 224 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 229 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 334 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
- Afac, 120 m away ·
afac / (dedication text illegible – backlit)
· 2013 - In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert, 199 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 15 Sept 2026 Graffiti on tree at Latimer Square
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, 2 Sept 2026 Graffiti on walkway path light post
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 8 Jul 2026 Graffiti on back of road sign.
Accessibility, 10 Apr 2026 please widen the existing kerb cut-downs and add a central kerb cut-down (tricky with the road sign, I know) so that cyclists and scooter ri
Hazard, vehicle, 1 Jun 2024 This is an ongoing problem of freedom campers using the parking here at Latimer square. This picture is taken from our dining room while we
- Hazard, vehicle, 26 May 2023
- Hazard, vehicle, 6 May 2023
- Park - General Request, 6 May 2023
Graffiti, 20 Jan 2016
Didn't remove graffiti on
Elsewhere on Latimer Square
- 1 Latimer Square, 38 reports
- 39 Latimer Square, 28 reports
- 44 Latimer Square, 25 reports
- 2 Latimer Square, 25 reports
- 22 Latimer Square, 16 reports
- 30 Latimer Square, 15 reports
- 23 Latimer Square, 10 reports
- 25 Latimer Square, 8 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Latimer Square in 17 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.
Latimer Square, 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 2016, most often hazard, vehicle (3), graffiti on a playground or in a park (2), park - general request (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Latimer Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Latimer Square and Setting, Christchurch Club and Setting.
Latimer Square, 9 m to its edge, 2 ha.




