562 Colombo Street
12 council reports since September 2022, 10 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, 7/204 St Asaph Street (166m)
- New City Hotel and Setting (172m)
- Former R. Buchanan & Sons' City Foundry and Setting, 2/210 St Asaph Street (184m)
- Colonial Motor Company Garage and Setting, 201 St Asaph Street (192m)
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
- Carlyle Reserve, 391 m to the edge
- Excelsior Hotel Reserve, 416 m to the edge · Botanic
- Friendship Corner, 488 m to the edge · Botanic
- City Mall, 493 m to the edge
- Wilson Park, 500 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, 314 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Mak's Photo Lab, 10 m away · Photographic Laboratory
- Samurai Bowl, 23 m away · Restaurants
- CJ's Music Works, 41 m away · Musical Instrument
- Shree Jagannath, 44 m away · Restaurants
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- South City (Northbound), 86 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
- Smiths City (Southbound), 98 m away · route 1, route 8, route 44
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 240 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, 255 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, 255 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 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 10 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Sept 2026 graffiti on solid steel
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 25 Sept 2026 graffiti on cabinet
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 30 Oct 2024 Black paint tag (plus sticky tags galore) on lamp pole by 562 Colombo Street.
Graffiti somewhere else, 1 Oct 2024 Southside wall of maks photo lab
Graffiti somewhere else, 2 Aug 2024
Graffiti somewhere else, 19 Jun 2024
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 8 May 2024 KAEPE black paint tag on metal lamp pole by 562 Colombo Street.
Graffiti on a fence, building or structure, 8 May 2024 Black and blue paint tags on rubbish bin by 562 Colombo Street.
Hazard, vehicle, 12 Feb 2024 Car park rubbish & old signage to remove
Water General, 8 Feb 2024 Broken water meter lid
- Graffiti, 9 Nov 2023
- Vandalism - General, 19 Sept 2022
Elsewhere on Colombo Street
- 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports
- 673 Colombo Street, 102 reports
- 781 Colombo Street, 55 reports
- 521 Colombo Street, 46 reports
- 722 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 569 Colombo Street, 45 reports
- 527 Colombo Street, 41 reports
- 711 Colombo Street, 38 reports
The street’s crash record
NZTA’s record names Colombo Street in 177 crashes that hurt somebody since 2006, 1 person killed, 32 seriously hurt.
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.
Colombo 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
12 council reports on record since September 2022, most often graffiti somewhere else (3), graffiti on a fence, building or structure (3), graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset (2).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 4 places at or beside it, Former P & D Duncan Ltd Building and Setting, New City Hotel and Setting.
Carlyle Reserve, 391 m to its edge.









