23 Latimer Square
10 council reports since November 2023, 9 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 1 Latimer Square, 38 reports on file.
On the register here
- Christchurch Club and Setting, 154 Worcester Street (52m)
- Latimer Square and Setting (70m)
- Shands Emporium: Former Commercial Building, 217 Manchester Street (203m)
- Former Trinity Congregational Church and Setting, 124 Worcester Street (203m)
- Former MED Converter Station and Substation, 102/210 Armagh Street (217m)
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, 28 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Cathedral Square, 335 m to the edge · Botanic
- Poplars Reserve, 348 m to the edge · Botanic
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 359 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 389 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, 380 m away · Library
- Triangle, 443 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Club, 64 m away · Clubs
- Christchurch Central City Apartment, 81 m away · Apartments
- Cathedral Square Market, 130 m away · Markets
- Bloody Mary's, 145 m away · Bars & pubs
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 101 m away · route 5, route 7
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 110 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, 23 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 177 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 219 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 228 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 321 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, 130 m away ·
afac / (dedication text illegible – backlit)
· 2013 - In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert, 179 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 9 on record
What’s on record
Pavement - General, 20 Mar 2025 Paver lifter. Trip hazard. Worse than it looks in photo.
Pavement - Damaged, 13 Mar 2025 Paving damaged again. Entrance to Worcester terraces
Poles and Signage - General, 22 Jan 2025
Vandalism - General, 10 Jan 2025 Lime scooters damaging grass at Latimer Square
Hazard, vehicle, 8 Jan 2025 Freedom camping outside our residence on Latimer Square
Hazard, vehicle, 4 Apr 2024 3 more freedom campers settling in for the night. You will notice that they do there cooking there on the street.
Hazard, vehicle, 23 Mar 2024 Freedom camping again on Latimer square. This time they were partying still at 2.30am
Hazard, vehicle, 21 Mar 2024 Freedom camping. New tactic… clamp own wheel
Pavement - Damaged, 12 Dec 2023 Paving stones are not seated correctly and are a significant trip hazard.
- Pavement - Damaged, 5 Nov 2023
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
- 21 Latimer Square, 9 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
10 council reports on record since November 2023, most often hazard, vehicle (4), pavement - damaged (3), vandalism - general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Latimer Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Christchurch Club and Setting, Latimer Square and Setting.
Latimer Square, 28 m to its edge, 2 ha.