661 Colombo Street
8 council reports since October 2020, 5 carrying a photograph. The street’s heaviest record is 794 Colombo Street, 159 reports on file.
On the register here
- Former Beaths Department Store (components), 201/690 Colombo Street (59m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 261F High Street (136m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 291F High Street (167m)
- Triangle Reserve and Setting, 220F High Street (173m)
- Commercial Building and Setting, Former Sargood Son and Ewen, 92 Lichfield Street (184m)
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, 70 m to the edge
- High Street Triangles, 118 m to the edge
- The Stewart Plaza, 153 m to the edge
- Friendship Corner, 249 m to the edge · Botanic
- Bridge Of Remembrance, 257 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, 119 m away · Car park
- Triangle, 125 m away · Car park
- Turanga Library, 415 m away · Library
- Civic Offices, 455 m away · Council office
- Scales, 458 m away · Car park
Libraries, halls and the rest within half a kilometre, the council’s open data.
On the doorstep
- Metromart Colombo St, 9 m away · Delis
- Trendez, 13 m away · Business
- On The Low, 14 m away · Clothing
- North Beach, 15 m away · Clothing
Businesses within four hundred metres, measured at the pin, OpenStreetMap and the council directories.
The bus nearby
- Bus Interchange (Intercity stop), 62 m away · route 3, route 8, route 80
- Bus Interchange (Platform B), 97 m away · route 1, route 7, route 8, route 27, route 44, route 91, route 92, route 95
The closest Metro stops, within four hundred and fifty metres.
The tracks through here
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 164 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 236 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 238 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 248 m to the line · walk · bike
- Walk and bike track through Christchurch Central City, 259 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
- Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / the Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015, 169 m away ·
Te Kiheru Wai o Tahu / The Canoe Bailer of Tahu / 2015 / (MÄori text and English translat
· 2015
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
- Rubbish/Recycling, 2
- Dumped Rubbish, 2
- Roading/Streets, 1
- Litter, 1
- Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 1
- General Request, 1
Photographed here 5 on record
What’s on record
Graffiti on a cabinet, pole or railway asset, 30 Oct 2024 Black paint tag (plus sticky tags galore) on steel lamp pole by 661Colombo Street.
- General Request, 28 Jun 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 19 Apr 2023
- Dumped Rubbish, 17 Jan 2023
Roading/Streets, 1 Jun 2022 Immidiate Trip Hazards, Potential Violence Hazards, Unsociable Behaviour, Rubbish & Vagrants - Daily. Please send this to our Mayor as the a
Rubbish/Recycling, 7 May 2021 urine (circled) and rubbish on footpath and surrounding area left by vagrants that inhabit this area and make us all feel unsafe. what is co
Rubbish/Recycling, 30 Mar 2021 litter all over footpath
Litter, 28 Oct 2020
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
8 council reports on record since October 2020, most often rubbish/recycling (2), dumped rubbish (2), roading/streets (1).
Christchurch Central City, Christchurch, on Colombo Street.
The heritage register names 5 places at or beside it, Former Beaths Department Store (components), Triangle Reserve and Setting.
City Mall, 70 m to its edge.




