272 Durham Street North
3 council reports since April 2025, 3 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 329 Durham Street North, 55 reports on file.
On the register here
- Gloucester Street Bridge and Setting (42m)
- Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings, 280 Durham Street North (63m)
- Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings Courtyard/Grounds, 280 Durham Street North (66m)
- Former Midland Club and Setting, 176 Oxford Terrace (77m)
- Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings Former Land Transfer Office, 86 Armagh Street (102m)
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
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 10 m to the edge · Botanic
- Scott Statue Reserve, 146 m to the edge · Botanic
- Victoria Square, 155 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Godley Statue Reserve, 216 m to the edge · Botanic
- Cranmer Square, 232 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
The civic shelf nearby
- Armagh Street, 153 m away · Car park
- Aldersgate, 195 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 275 m away · Council office
- Turanga Library, 293 m away · Library
- Triangle, 443 m away · Car park
- Rolleston Avenue, 463 m away · Car park
- Scales, 465 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Chill Out, 19 m away · Attractions
- Hikari Sushi Bar & Japanese Cuisine, 25 m away · Restaurants
- Vivace Espresso, 48 m away · Cafés
- Chill, 50 m away · Bike shops
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 327 m away · route 8
- Hereford St near Montreal St, 340 m away · route 8
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 61 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 101 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 107 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 136 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 144 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
- Provincial Council Building 1865 — Canterbury Centenary, 25 m away ·
PROVINCIAL COUNCIL BUILDING 1865 — Canterbury Centenary plaque
· 2009 - … Golden Jubilee / 1962, 38 m away ·
… GOLDEN JUBILEE / 1962
· 2000 - Planted by / Miss R. Medlicott / Dominion President 1968–69, 55 m away ·
PLANTED BY / Miss R. MEDLICOTT / DOMINION PRESIDENT 1968–69 / TO MARK THE / 21st ANNUAL GE
· 2000
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 3 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 30 May 2025
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 30 May 2025 Graffiti on traffic signal controller box at Cambridge/Gloucester
Damaged Street Sign, 17 Apr 2025 Broken Street Sign
Elsewhere on Durham Street North
- 329 Durham Street North, 55 reports
- 287 Durham Street North, 47 reports
- 398 Durham Street North, 36 reports
- 380 Durham Street North, 34 reports
- 423 Durham Street North, 28 reports
- 280 Durham Street North, 28 reports
- 414 Durham Street North, 25 reports
- 378 Durham Street North, 23 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Durham Street North in 24 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 4 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.
Durham Street North, 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
3 council reports on record since April 2025, most often graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (2), damaged street sign (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Durham Street North.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Gloucester Street Bridge and Setting, Canterbury Provincial Council Buildings.
Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve, 10 m to its edge.