214 Hereford Street, Christchurch Central City
54 reports on record since February 2023 · 47 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 47 on record
Reported here
Rubbish and Bins - General, 
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, graffiti on traffic control cabinet nearby
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, Graffiti on street light power box
Graffiti on a playground or in a park, Graffiti on tree
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, Graffiti on bin
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, Graffiti on bench seat
Hazard, vehicle, this vehicle can not park at bus parking
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, graffiti stickers on bin
Road Signage, This sign needs to be removed as the building site it refers to is now complete. Thank you.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, graffiti on seat
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, graffiti on seat
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, graffiti on traffic control cabinet
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, Graffiti on traffic control cabinet
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 
Rubbish and Bins - General, Bin full
Road Signage, Speed limit signs on an angle, dented, and the speed text has been pulled off after it had road works tape over it for 6 months
Graffiti on a road, footpath or bridge, Graffiti on road sign
Rubbish and Bins - General, Broken rubbish bin lid
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, Graffiti on rubbish bin
Roads - General, Transition from intersection to cycle way is too abrupt. One inch cutaway of road. Potentially a safety hazard for cyclists and scooter user
Park - General Request, Leftover fencing , been here for weeks
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 
Hazard, vehicle, Sign missing,sign wrong way,cannot issue tickets
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, Two men have stickered the road sign & city map sign at the Hereford/Madras Street intersection. Police file number is 250303/4450 if you'd
Damaged Road, Deep hole getting bigger on curb edge across from cardboard cathedral
Street Light Outage, Streetlight closest to the traffic light control box is flickering every 15 seconds. It has been doing this for quite a few months now.
Graffiti somewhere else, Seat handle
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, Multiple paint tags on 3 sides of traffic controller by 214 Hereford Street in Latimer Square.
Pavement - Damaged, Cloth strip at pedestrian crossing. Older lady tripped as her foot got caught under cloth.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 
Graffiti somewhere else, Park light pole
Graffiti somewhere else, 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 
Roads - General, Unsafe Temporary Traffic Management Stadium roadworks on Hereford at Latimer Sq force EB vehicles across the cycle lane with NO advance war
Graffiti somewhere else, 
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, On three traffic light poles couldn't take any more photos cause light changed
Graffiti somewhere else, Graffiti on Orion box on this corner
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 
Graffiti somewhere else, 
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, Black paint tag on Give Way sign at the corner of Latimer Square and Hereford Street.
Road Signage, P120 sign and pole has been removed. Arrow left p120 please replace so we can enforce
Graffiti, 
Graffiti, Bench seat and rubbish bin
Litter, Broken glasses on the road
Graffiti, 
Graffiti, ORGANZ black paint tag on steel lamp pole by 3/214 Hereford Street.
Street Gutters / Storm Water, Stormwater grate is missing.
- Graffiti,
- Graffiti,
- Litter,
- Graffiti,
- Graffiti,
- Graffiti,
- Poles and Signage - General,
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
- 147 Hereford Street, 46 reports
- 12 Hereford Street, 43 reports
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 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, 15 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 339 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 351 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 378 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 390 m to the edge · Botanic
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Triangle, 428 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 462 m away · Library · Cathedral Square, Christchurch
- St Asaph, 471 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Miyamoto International NZ, 103 m away · Engineers
- Les Mills Gym, 105 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Christchurch Club, 106 m away · Clubs
- Caffeine Kick Cafe, 120 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin: OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Latimer Square, 65 m away · route 60
- Hereford St near Latimer Square, 77 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, 120 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 216 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 360 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 361 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 368 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
- Afac, 233 m away ·
afac / (dedication text illegible – backlit)
· 2013
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
118 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
121 m away · located to ±119 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
153 m away · 214 Cashel Street · located to ±26 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here, Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building
243 m away · 217 Manchester Street · located to ±6 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
54 council reports on record since February 2023, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (9), graffiti (9), graffiti somewhere else (6).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Hereford Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Christchurch Club and Setting, Latimer Square and Setting.
Latimer Square, 15 m to its edge, 2 ha.