251 Madras Street
5 council reports since April 2023, 3 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 (125m)
- Latimer Square and Setting (169m)
- Christchurch Club and Setting, 154 Worcester Street (172m)
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, 68 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 316 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 361 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 389 m to the edge
- Cathedral Square, 428 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
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Miyamoto International NZ, 80 m away · Engineers
- Cashel shop, 83 m away · Variety Store
- Les Mills Gym, 92 m away · Gyms & fitness
- Caffeine Kick Cafe, 99 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, 104 m away · route 60
- Hereford St near Latimer Square, 105 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, 175 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 238 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 317 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 337 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 410 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
- Pothole, 1
- Graffiti, 1
- General Request, 1
- Damaged Road, 1
- Abandoned Vehicle, 1
Photographed here 3 on record
What’s on record
General Request, 5 Oct 2026
Damaged Road, 25 Aug 2026 Pothole in the road that needs filling. On Madras St, at the start of the left turning lane into Hereford St. Appears to have been repaired
Pothole, 26 Oct 2025 Big sink hole.
- Abandoned Vehicle, 12 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 17 Apr 2023
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 April 2023, most often pothole (1), graffiti (1), general request (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, 68 m to its edge, 2 ha.