248 Madras Street
6 council reports since November 2025, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Latimer Square and Setting (120m)
- Christchurch Club and Setting, 154 Worcester Street (171m)
- Former MED Converter Station and Substation, 102/210 Armagh Street (190m)
- Dwellings and Setting, 86 Chester Street East (213m)
- Dwellings and Setting, 100 Chester Street East (223m)
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, 39 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Poplars Reserve, 252 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cambridge Reserve, 310 m to the edge
- Fire Fighters Reserve, 319 m to the edge
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 331 m to the edge · Botanic
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, 444 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Christchurch Central City Apartment, 93 m away · Apartments
- City Putt and Cruise, 101 m away · Attractions
- Bloody Mary's, 116 m away · Bars & pubs
- Rydges Latimer, 121 m away · Hotels
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 97 m away · route 5, route 7
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 106 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, 122 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 122 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 132 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 245 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 247 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, 32 m away ·
afac / (dedication text illegible – backlit)
· 2013 - ANZCO Foods, 232 m away ·
ANZCO FOODS / Donated for the people of Canterbury to enjoy, following fundraising by ANZC
· 2017 - In Memory of / Jaime Robert McDowell Gilbert, 233 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 sign, mural or public art, 22 Sept 2026 Graffiti on back of give way sign.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 10 Sept 2026 graffiti on signage center island
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 2 Sept 2026 Graffiti on Latimer Square sign.
Graffiti on a sign, mural or public art, 21 Jul 2026 Graffiti on give way sign.
Accessibility, 10 Apr 2026 please add a kerb cut-down and re-align/create a path through the islands to allow cyclists to ride north through Latimer Square and then co
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 27 Nov 2025 graffiti on traffic control cabinet
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
6 council reports on record since November 2025, most often graffiti on a sign, mural or public art (4), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1), accessibility (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Latimer Square and Setting, Christchurch Club and Setting.
Latimer Square, 39 m to its edge, 2 ha.