317 Madras Street
11 council reports since November 2020, 6 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Vicarage of the Church of St Luke the Evangelist and Setting, 185 Kilmore Street (168m)
- Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting, 295F Madras Street (210m)
- The Bricks Site, Cairn and Setting, 311 Oxford Terrace (220m)
- Former Church of St Luke the Evangelist Bell Tower and Setting, 258 Manchester Street (228m)
- Poplars, Lamp Standards and Setting (237m)
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
- Cambridge Reserve, 114 m to the edge
- Fire Fighters Reserve, 130 m to the edge
- Poplars Reserve, 162 m to the edge · Botanic
- Avon Riverbank Central City, 266 m to the edge · 6 ha
- Cambridge Green, 270 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary, the council’s open data. The whole roll is at /parks.
On the doorstep
- Fox and Associates, 57 m away · Surveyors
- South Architects, 64 m away · Architects
- Mainland Uniforms, 81 m away · Clothing
- Knit World, 89 m away · Wool
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St near Kilmore St, 235 m away · route 1, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
- Manchester St near Salisbury St, 250 m away · route 1, route 27, route 29, route 44, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 97 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 105 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 106 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, 151 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
- This Tree Was Planted / to Commemorate, 120 m away ·
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED / TO COMMEMORATE / THE 10 YEARS OF SERVICE / OF THE / ALTRUSA CLUB /
· 2009 - Planted by / National League / of Mothers, 123 m away ·
PLANTED BY / NATIONAL LEAGUE / OF MOTHERS / TO COMMEMORATE 65 / YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND / 192
· 2009 - 25th May 1991 / 25 Years in New Zealand Working, 123 m away ·
25th May 1991 / 25 years in New Zealand working / for prisoners of conscience and / politi
· 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 6 on record
What’s on record
Dumped Rubbish, 30 Jan 2026 Road cone (no identification) dumped on footpath
Overgrown Vegetation, 19 Jan 2025 317 madras street
Dumped Rubbish, 13 Jun 2024 Bicycle lock needs removal from a concrete lamp pole at the corner of Madras and Peterborough Street.
- Graffiti, 12 Sept 2023
- Graffiti, 8 Jul 2023
- Graffiti, 22 Nov 2022
- Graffiti, 5 Sept 2022
Graffiti, 24 Jun 2022 Black paint tag on concrete lamp pole on the corner of Peterborough and Madras Streets.
Graffiti, 24 Jun 2022 Gray and black paint tags on both sides of Stop sign on the corner of Peterborough and Madras Streets.
- Wastewater/Stormwater, 18 Aug 2021
Corner Madras & Peterborough Sts east side. Water constantly leaking across footpath.
Water Leak, 3 Nov 2020
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, 30 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
11 council reports on record since November 2020, most often graffiti (6), dumped rubbish (2), water leak (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Vicarage of the Church of St Luke the Evangelist and Setting, Edmonds Clock Tower, Telephone Cabinet and Setting.
Cambridge Reserve, 114 m to its edge.