400 Barbadoes Street, Christchurch Central City
14 reports on record since April 2022 · 14 with photographs. The street’s heaviest record is 390 Barbadoes Street — 65 reports on file. Indicative rating valuation and school zones, hazards, bin day and what stood here before.
What gets reported here
Photographed here 14 on record
Reported here
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure — graffiti on black fence
Dumped Rubbish — 396 Barbadoes St : wooden pallet dumped on the footpath
Dumped Rubbish — large wooden palette dumped on the footpath
Water Leak — Looks like a private stormwater drain has a cross connection and is constantly discharging onto the road
Damaged Street Sign — 
Sewer - Leak / Blockage — Blocked drain on other side of road to the drain I reported the other day
Street Gutters / Storm Water — Blocked / non-draining stormwater sump on the east side of Barbados. The next one in the direction of Bealey is the same.
Water Leak — This is the fourth and final report in this thread. This is the first backflow from the gutter, flowing south from 400 Barbadoes Street. Not
Street Gutters / Storm Water — This is a follow up to my immediately preceding email. It’s very clear that the drainage system needs TLC; it’s all blocked up.
Water Leak — Water is backflowing northward from drainage system here, around 400 Barbadoes Street.
Graffiti — 
Rubbish/Recycling — Rubbish all over Barbadoes st
Wastewater/Stormwater — Gutter grille is clogged up on Barbadoes Street opposite Melrose Street.
Sewer - Leak / Blockage — Gutter grille is clogged up by 400 Barbadoes Street.
Also reported on Barbadoes Street
- 390 Barbadoes Street — 65 reports
- 259 Barbadoes Street — 51 reports
- 384 Barbadoes Street — 47 reports
- 321 Barbadoes Street — 37 reports
- 377 Barbadoes Street — 36 reports
- 288 Barbadoes Street — 29 reports
- 407 Barbadoes Street — 28 reports
- 324 Barbadoes Street — 28 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Barbadoes Street in 213 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006 — 1 person killed, 31 seriously hurt.
The green nearby
- Barbadoes Cemetery — 71 m to the edge · Botanic · 3 ha
- Moa Reserve — 133 m to the edge
- Avon Riverbank Central City — 172 m to the edge · 6 ha
- Cambridge Green — 283 m to the edge
- Walnut Tree Park — 367 m to the edge
Parks within half a kilometre, measured to the boundary — the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Coco Espresso — 10 m away · Cafés
- Co Co Espresso — 71 m away · Cafés
- Mobil Mart — 73 m away · Dairies & convenience
- Mobil — 76 m away · Petrol stations
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin — OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Barbadoes St near Bealey Ave — 165 m away · route 44
- Barbadoes St near Bealey Ave — 192 m away · route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 144 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 261 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 384 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 399 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City — 490 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
- Barbadoes Cemetery plaque — 143 m away · 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 — Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting
on this spot · located to ±198 m · the place’s own record →
Barbadoes Street Cemetery's burial record runs in three Church of England registers: No. 1 from 9 April 1851 to 29 January 1870, No. 2 from 2 February 1870 to 3 September 1882, and No. 3 from 4 September 1882 into the 1970s.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery : alphabetical list of burials · · Christchurch City LibrariesEach register entry records when the person was buried, their name and surname, age, sex, parents' or husband's name, rank or profession, place of residence, and who performed the ceremony.
Barbadoes St Cemetery, Church of England, Register no. 1 · · Christchurch City LibrariesThe cemetery's ground was surveyed in nine historical plot plans, block by block — bordered by Barbadoes Street to the west and Cambridge Terrace to the south and east — and the plots are not consistently numbered; beside the lych-gate in block 3A, plot 780a is noted as apparently infant graves.
Barbadoes St Cemetery plan - area 1B · · Christchurch City LibrariesThe plots were sold: a separate burial plots book keeps receipt numbers, purchasers' names, plot numbers and sizes, and amounts paid, and its later pages record deposits on part-purchased plots, the completed purchase, and when title was given.
Barbadoes Street. Burial plots book · · Christchurch City LibrariesBy 1945 the cemetery sat inside a built-up city — a view across its headstones that year shows residential houses over the back fence — and by 1979 its graves and headstones were weathered, broken or fallen over; headstones still stood in the western portion in 2005.
Barbadoes Street Cemetery headstones · · Christchurch City LibrariesWhat was here — Dwelling and Setting
244 m away · 361 Cambridge Terrace · located to ±10 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
14 council reports on record since April 2022 — most often water leak (3), street gutters / storm water (2), sewer - leak / blockage (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch — on Barbadoes Street.
The heritage register names 2 places at or beside it — Barbadoes Street Cemetery and Setting, Dwelling and Setting.
Barbadoes Cemetery — 71 m to its edge, 3 ha.