229 Tuam Street
10 council reports since July 2022, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 278 Tuam Street, 89 reports on file.
On the register here
- Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, 181 High Street (85m)
- Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings, 147 High Street (96m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former C F Cotter and Company, 101/158 High Street (105m)
- 158 High Street, G01/158 High Street (110m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 189F High Street (111m)
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
- Wilson Park, 156 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 172 m to the edge · Botanic
- Latimer Square, 361 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- City Mall, 388 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 416 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
- St Asaph, 165 m away · Car park
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 479 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 480 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Kathmandu Head Office, 30 m away · Company
- Wash, 34 m away · Car washes
- One NZ, 37 m away · Company
- Mobil Mart, 52 m away · Dairies & convenience
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Tuam St near Madras St, 118 m away · route 1, route 3, route 5, route 80
- Madras St near Southwark St, 206 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, 13 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 143 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 195 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 473 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, 103 m away ·
‘Corgis on High’ — Christchurch City public artwork, 6 December 2003
· 2009 - The First Public Water Supply Well Was Drilled Near This, 108 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 16 May 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 29 Aug 2024
Vandalism - General, 26 May 2024- Road Signage, 29 Oct 2023
- Graffiti, 22 Oct 2023
- Graffiti, 7 Oct 2023
- Graffiti, 6 Mar 2023
- Hazard, vehicle, 9 Feb 2023
Graffiti, 10 Aug 2022 Black paint tags on steel lamp pole on the corner of Nurseryman Lane and Tuam Street.
General - Abandoned Trolley, 26 Jul 2022 Looking wet and lonely.
Elsewhere on Tuam Street
- 278 Tuam Street, 89 reports
- 286 Tuam Street, 52 reports
- 16 Tuam Street, 52 reports
- 94 Tuam Street, 49 reports
- 189 Tuam Street, 38 reports
- 322 Tuam Street, 31 reports
- 284 Tuam Street, 29 reports
- 290 Tuam Street, 28 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Tuam Street in 144 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 18 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.
Tuam 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
10 council reports on record since July 2022, most often graffiti (4), vandalism - general (1), road signage (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Tuam Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Commercial Building Façade and Setting, Former A J Whites, Commercial Building and Setting. Duncan's Buildings.
Wilson Park, 156 m to its edge.