54 Lichfield Street
10 council reports since May 2016, 8 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 160 Lichfield Street, 37 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Beaths Department Store (components), 201/690 Colombo Street (143m)
- St Michael's School Hall and Setting, 243 Durham Street South (211m)
- St Michael's School Stone Building and Setting (217m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 261F High Street (222m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen, 92 Lichfield Street (226m)
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
- City Mall, 151 m to the edge
- Friendship Corner, 198 m to the edge · Botanic
- High Street Triangles, 204 m to the edge
- The Stewart Plaza, 228 m to the edge
- Bridge Of Remembrance, 230 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.
The civic shelf nearby
- Re:start - Lichfield Street, 55 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 207 m away · Car park
- Scales, 413 m away · Car park
- Civic Offices, 445 m away · Council office
- Turanga Library, 488 m away · Library
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Hoyts Cinema - Central (EntX), 34 m away · Cinemas & theatres
- Archie Brothers Cirque Electriq & Holey Moley, 37 m away · Attractions
- Joes Garage - EntX, 43 m away · Cafés
- Joe's Garage, 47 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Intercity stop), 99 m away · route 3, route 8, route 80
- Bus Interchange (Platform A), 113 m away · route 3, route 5, route 60, route 80, route 81, route 84, route 85, route 86
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 101 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 188 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 196 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 203 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 306 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
- The Chapel Is Open 1 Pm to 4 Pm Daily Closed Sundays, 218 m away ·
THE CHAPEL IS OPEN 1 PM TO 4 PM DAILY CLOSED SUNDAYS & CHRISTMAS DAY
· 2009 - Friendship Corner / Sister Cities, 224 m away ·
FRIENDSHIP CORNER / Sister Cities / (list largely illegible on inlay)
· 2010 - Friendship Corner plaque, 232 m away ·
(illegible – triangular emblem plaque)
· 2010
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 8 on record
What’s on record
Hazard, vehicle, 5 Oct 2026 Parking in loading zone
Poles and Signage - General, 7 Sept 2026 2 broken bollards in front of ballentyns or however it’s spelt
Pavement - Damaged, 1 Sept 2026 Cracked water meter cover again, please replace too metal as this keeps occurring causing a trip hazard. Also the bricks around the plastic
General Request, 7 Jul 2026 Please replace the 3 missing/damaged bollards
Pavement - Damaged, 26 Mar 2026 Cracked lid in water meter, please replace with a metal cover
Pavement - General, 10 Jan 2026 3 Damage bollards in the loading bay have temporarily taped it up. Please replace
Pavement - Damaged, 16 Apr 2025 Water meter cover cracked again, was sticking up as a trip hazard have managed to put it back in but will need replacing ??
- Pit and Equipment - General, 13 Nov 2023
- Hazard, vehicle, 20 Dec 2022
Wastewater/Stormwater, 24 May 2016
Drains blocked, flooding Restart carpark making footpath unusable
Elsewhere on Lichfield Street
- 160 Lichfield Street, 37 reports
- 84 Lichfield Street, 27 reports
- 90 Lichfield Street, 25 reports
- 71 Lichfield Street, 25 reports
- 116 Lichfield Street, 22 reports
- 60 Lichfield Street, 19 reports
- 140 Lichfield Street, 19 reports
- 81 Lichfield Street, 18 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Lichfield Street in 71 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 14 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.
Lichfield 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
10 council reports on record since May 2016, most often pavement - damaged (3), hazard, vehicle (2), wastewater/stormwater (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Lichfield Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Beaths Department Store (components), St Michael's School Hall and Setting.
City Mall, 151 m to its edge.






