294 Madras Street
4 council reports since December 2023, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Dwellings and Setting, 86 Chester Street East (34m)
- Dwellings and Setting, 100 Chester Street East (57m)
- Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting, 295F Madras Street (95m)
- Poplars, Lamp Standards and Setting (164m)
- Former MED Converter Station and Substation, 102/210 Armagh Street (195m)
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
- Poplars Reserve, 79 m to the edge · Botanic
- Fire Fighters Reserve, 140 m to the edge
- Cambridge Reserve, 147 m to the edge
- Latimer Square, 188 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Edmonds Band Rotunda, 275 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.
On the doorstep
- Table at Monks, 36 m away · Restaurants
- City Putt and Cruise, 89 m away · Attractions
- Pillars Cafe, 116 m away · Cafés
- Christchurch Sea Kayaking, 119 m away · Attractions
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 204 m away · route 5, route 7
- Gloucester St near Latimer Square, 220 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, 57 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 60 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 72 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 117 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 187 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
- H. Francis Willis, 91 m away ·
H. FRANCIS WILLIS. RENNELL BROS / ARCHITECT BUILDERS / W T TRETHEWEY / SCULPTOR
· 2009 - This Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and All Standard Lights, 94 m away ·
THIS CLOCK TOWER, TELEPHONE CABINET AND ALL STANDARD LIGHTS IN POPLAR CRESCENT WERE PRESEN
· 2009 - Heritage Christchurch Edmonds’ Telephone Cabinet Presented, 98 m away ·
HERITAGE CHRISTCHURCH Edmonds’ Telephone Cabinet Presented 1929 Architect H. Francis Willi
· 2009
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 4 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 13 May 2026 294 Madras St: two road cones (Wilsons) and cardboard box dumped on the footpath
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 30 Jan 2026 Black spray graffiti on metal lamp post
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 1 Mar 2025 EKOE black paint tag on metal lamp pole by 294 Madras Street.
Graffiti, 23 Dec 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
4 council reports on record since December 2023, most often graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (2), graffiti (1), dumped rubbish (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Dwellings and Setting, Dwellings and Setting.
Poplars Reserve, 79 m to its edge.