36A Welles Street
7 council reports since July 2024, 7 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 25 Welles Street, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (46m)
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (54m)
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (125m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Lawrie and Wilson Auctioneers, 210 Tuam Street (168m)
- Former Tuam Street Hall and Setting, 214 Tuam Street (180m)
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, 277 m to the edge · Botanic
- Wilson Park, 342 m to the edge
- City Mall, 420 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 442 m to the edge
- Gasson Reserve, 464 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, 306 m away · Car park
- St Asaph, 421 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 480 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Muy Muy Tapas & Margarita Bar, 10 m away · Restaurants
- Winnie Bagoes, 23 m away · Restaurants
- Corkin and Friends, 40 m away · Hairdressers
- Muy Muy, 44 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Manchester St near Welles St, 103 m away · route 27
- Manchester St near Allen St, 162 m away · route 27, route 84, route 85, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 88 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 186 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 281 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 330 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 330 m to the line · walk · bike
Tracks whose line passes within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
The named ground
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 7 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 6 Jan 2026 Graffiti on wall
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 22 Aug 2025 Graffiti across the side of the fence.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 18 Jan 2025 Graffiti across the side of the building.
Damaged Street Sign, 6 Aug 2024 Street sign abandoned in entrance to Atlas Quarter.
Roads - General, 30 Jul 2024 This is 40 welles, where the yellow lines are fading causing a lot of people parking blocking entrance.
Graffiti somewhere else, 29 Jul 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 29 Jul 2024
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
7 council reports on record since July 2024, most often graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), graffiti somewhere else (2), roads - general (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Welles Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting.
Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 277 m to its edge.






