240 Madras Street
5 council reports since October 2024, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Façade and Setting, Former New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury Ltd, 214 Cashel Street (121m)
- Latimer Square and Setting (193m)
- Christchurch Club and Setting, 154 Worcester Street (200m)
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, 88 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 309 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 371 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 399 m to the edge
- Wilson Park, 424 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
- Cashel shop, 66 m away · Variety Store
- Miyamoto International NZ, 79 m away · Engineers
- Les Mills Gym, 99 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Caffeine Kick Cafe, 102 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, 127 m away · route 60
- Hereford St near Latimer Square, 129 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, 202 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 252 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 293 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 319 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 413 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.
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
- Graffiti somewhere else, 2
- Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 1
- Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 5 Oct 2025 Graffiti on light lamp post
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 15 Feb 2025 Signage
Graffiti somewhere else, 4 Feb 2025
Graffiti somewhere else, 19 Jan 2025
General Request, 9 Oct 2024 The plaque at the ctv memorial madras st needs attention please.
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
5 council reports on record since October 2024, most often graffiti somewhere else (2), graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 3 places at or beside it, Façade and Setting, Former New Zealand Farmers’ Co-operative Association of Canterbury Ltd, Latimer Square and Setting.
Latimer Square, 88 m to its edge, 2 ha.