394 Madras Street
5 council reports since February 2024, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 153 Madras Street, 73 reports on file.
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
- Moa Reserve, 93 m to the edge · playground, 18 pieces
- Barbadoes Cemetery, 246 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Cambridge Green, 343 m to the edge
- Avon Riverbank Central City, 357 m to the edge · 6 ha
- Rose Historic Chapel Reserve, 445 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
- Engenium, 73 m away · Consulting
- Carters, 75 m away · Hardware
- Pegasus Primary Mental Health Services, 84 m away · Doctors & clinics
- The Belle Curve, 95 m away · Cafés
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 250 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 322 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 349 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 420 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 428 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 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa, 10 Sept 2026 Graffiti on utility box. Been like this for many weeks.
General Request, 24 Mar 2025
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 2 Sept 2024 Black paint tag on metal lamp pole by 394 Madras Street.
Water Leak, 5 Jul 2024
Damaged Street Sign, 17 Feb 2024 The sign for 'Melrose st' on the corner of madras st has disappeared a few weeks ago. It's not even on the ground anywhere.
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
5 council reports on record since February 2024, most often water leak (1), graffiti on a traffic light pole or cabinet, or wa (1), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Madras Street.
Nothing on the heritage register at this exact spot, the record around this ground →
Moa Reserve, 93 m to its edge.




