32 Cranmer Square, Christchurch Central City
15 reports on record since November 2022 · 3 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 19 Cranmer Square — 23 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
- Water Leak — 9
- Road Signage — 1
- Pavement - General — 1
- Overgrown Vegetation — 1
- Hazard — vehicle — 1
- Graffiti — 1
Photographed here 3 on record
Reported here
- Overgrown Vegetation —
Sucker at base of tree growing furiously and could potentially occlude the footpath. Needs cutting off. At corner of Chester St & Cranmer Sq
Water Leak — This is now starting to scour out silt. If you don’t come fix this soon you are going to have a major repair job of the whole footpath like
Water Leak — Leaking tobies. Can’t tell which tap it is.
Graffiti — pink graffiti half done on white wall
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Also reported on Cranmer Square
- 19 Cranmer Square — 23 reports
- 25 Cranmer Square — 22 reports
- 28 Cranmer Square — 19 reports
- 10 Cranmer Square — 19 reports
- 9 Cranmer Square — 16 reports
- 33A Cranmer Square — 15 reports
- 22 Cranmer Square — 15 reports
- 18 Cranmer Square — 15 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Cranmer Square in 8 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006 — 2 seriously hurt, nobody killed.
The green nearby
- Cranmer Square — 22 m to the edge · Botanic · 2 ha
- Victoria Triangles — 177 m to the edge
- Hagley Park North — 262 m to the edge · Sports ground · 91 ha
- Canterbury Provincial Council Reserve — 278 m to the edge · Botanic
- Armagh Reserve — 291 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
The civic shelf nearby
- Aldersgate — 185 m away · Car park
- Armagh St — 199 m away · Car park
- Rolleston Avenue — 473 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Dorothy's Pop Up Tearooms — 68 m away · Fast food
- Delhi Belly Indian Restaurant — 94 m away · Restaurants
- The Spire Cafe — 119 m away · Hotels
- Ōtautahi Community Housing Trust — 122 m away · Quango
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Victoria St near Peterborough St — 210 m away · route 1, route 29, route 95
- Park Tce near Chester St W — 286 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 — 168 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 190 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 211 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 255 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 267 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, measured to the line itself — 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
- Rugby Football Was First Played in Cranmer Square — 195 m away ·
Rugby football was first played in Cranmer Square by the Christchurch Football Club in 186
· 2003
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 was here — Dwelling and Setting
25 m away · 38 Cranmer Square · located to ±5 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Former Shop/Dwelling and Setting
39 m away · 40 Cranmer Square · located to ±6 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Cranmer Square and Setting
on this spot · 1P Cranmer Square · located to ±119 m · the place’s own record →
In the winter of 1869 the City Council fenced Cranmer Square — the works committee had fencing plans prepared in July, and the fortnightly works return at the end of August records men "erecting posts for fencing Cranmer Square".
CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL. (Star, 27 July 1869) · · National Library of New ZealandIn January 1882 the promoters Joubert and Twopeny asked the City Council for the use of Cranmer Square to erect buildings for an international exhibition they planned to open that April.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. (Star, 14 January 1882) · · National Library of New ZealandAt an informal council meeting on 13 January 1882, Twopeny said the promoters would sign a bond to give the square back "in exactly the same condition as it was before" and would not injure any of its trees; he asked for Cranmer rather than Latimer Square because money had just been spent laying Latimer out.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. (Star, 14 January 1882) · · National Library of New ZealandThe exhibition never came to Cranmer Square. When it opened in April 1882 its buildings stood in Hagley Park, on the angle formed by the junction of the Riccarton and Lincoln roads.
THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION AT CHRISTCHURCH. (Timaru Herald, 12 April 1882) · · National Library of New ZealandBy the early 1900s the houses around Cranmer Square ran heavily as lodging and boarding houses — the Star's columns carry years of boarders wanted, rooms to let and servants sought addressed to numbers 2, 3, 10, 20, 22 and 30.
Page 6 Advertisements Column 1 (Star, 14 January 1905) · · National Library of New ZealandWhat was here — Former St Margaret's School Building and Setting
153 m away · 25A Cranmer Square · located to ±24 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
What was here — Dwelling and Setting
225 m away · 56 Armagh Street · located to ±14 m · the place’s own record →
On the register. Nothing researched here yet.
The civic layer
This ground votes in Central ward — the Papanui-Innes-Central community board. Ward lines don’t always follow suburb lines; this one is measured at the pin, not the suburb’s centre.
What stood on this ground → · On the map → · From the air — the Crown’s aerials back to 1936; search the address on RetroLens →
Questions, answered briefly
15 council reports on record since November 2022 — most often water leak (9), road signage (1), pavement - general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Cranmer Square.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it — Dwelling and Setting, Former Shop/Dwelling and Setting.
Cranmer Square — 22 m to its edge, 2 ha.