3 Welles Street
9 council reports since November 2017, 4 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Welles Street, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (92m)
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (99m)
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (114m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, 210 Tuam Street (215m)
- Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting, 214 Tuam Street (232m)
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
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 329 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 405 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 427 m to the edge
- Friendship Corner, 434 m to the edge · Botanic
- Wilson Park, 462 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
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 234 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 453 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Grow Active's Little Market, 23 m away · Markets
- Stirling Sports, 24 m away · Sportswear
- Burger Burger, 26 m away · Cafés
- Peaches & Cream, 29 m away · Erotic
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- St Asaph St near Colombo St, 120 m away · route 3, route 5, route 7, route 60, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86
- South City (Northbound), 179 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 172 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 209 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 343 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 344 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 345 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.
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
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 2 Oct 2026 Kia ora, can the team please remove the graffiti on this planter with a light solvent only. This is a project from the Urban Regeneration te
Water Leak, 18 Sept 2025 Water is seeping from under a cover plate onto the surrounding area and across the footpath
- Graffiti, 18 Nov 2023
- Graffiti, 14 Aug 2023
- Graffiti, 16 May 2023
- Graffiti, 27 Jan 2023
- Graffiti, 16 Jan 2023
Graffiti, 2 Feb 2021 Painted out by Peeep Trust
Graffiti, 5 Nov 2017
Elsewhere on Welles Street
- 25 Welles Street, 37 reports
- 10 Welles Street, 33 reports
- 22 Welles Street, 30 reports
- 44 Welles Street, 28 reports
- 41 Welles Street, 27 reports
- 7 Welles Street, 23 reports
- 37 Welles Street, 18 reports
- 45 Welles Street, 17 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Welles Street in 6 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 2 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.
Welles 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
9 council reports on record since November 2017, most often graffiti (7), water leak (1), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Welles Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting.
Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 329 m to its edge.


